Marcos Lutyens nasce a Londra nel 1964. Vive e lavora a Los Angeles.

Interessato sin dai primi lavori all’interdisciplinarietà, utilizza tecniche cognitive come l’ipnosi, le tecnologie come la robotica e altri strumenti sensoriali per creare performance, sculture ed installazioni. I suoi progetti si distinguono per il carattere di continua sperimentazione e per la grande complessità: dalle indagini sull’inquinamento dell’aria ai lavori di comparazione tra la percezione sensoriale umana ed animale e l'interazione tra diverse specie. Marcos Lutyens ricerca aspetti della vita quotidiana, generalmente invisibili o trascurati dall'osservatore comune, con cui instaurare un dialogo più profondo in modo da favorire un diverso approccio al reale e all’ambiente. Ha sviluppato ricerche relative a processi soggettivi e cognitivi della mente interiore, soprattutto attraverso l’ipnosi, impegnandosi in interessanti esperimenti con il Dott. V. S. Ramachandran, direttore del Brain and Cognition all'Università della California a San Diego, per esplorare i percorsi neurologici del cervello ed osservare i processi di sinestesia della mente. Ha collaborato con Marcos Novak al progetto Education: the alien within e con Matt Mullican.

Questa continua tensione alla ricerca lo conduce continuamente a lavorare nella dimensione sociale, confrontandosi con specifiche culture, come quella Muxhe, della civiltà zapoteca nel Messico sud-occidentale nel progetto Bestiary, a cura di Olga Margarita Davila.

Ha lavorato nel production design e film set design, in particolare con il regista e artista Bruno Aveillan. Ha esposto a livello internazionale, con un riconoscimento importante a dOCUMENTA(13) con Raimundas Malašauskas per l’Hypnotic Show a cura di Carolyn Christov-Bagarkiev Show (ora opera di proprietà dell’Istituto di Arte Contemporanea Inhotim in Brasile), Museum of Absence, Royal Museum of Fine Arts ad Antwerp, MOCA di Los Angeles, Royal Academy nel Regno Unito, LACMA, Centre Pompidou e alla Biennale di Architettura di Venezia. Recentemente ha lavorato ad Artists Space, New York, Kunstverein, Amsterdam e la Kadist Art Foundation a Parigi. Nel 2013 ha partecipato ad esposizioni internazionali come la Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione delle Maldive, una nuova esperienza presso il MOCA di Los Angeles, il Belluard Bollwerk International Festival a Friburgo, l’inaugurazione della struttura e l’avvio di una nuova serie di performance a Belo Horizonte, presso l’Istituto di Arte Contemporanea Inhotim, la Rietvelt Academy ad Amsterdam, il Museo del Barrio, NYC e una personale presso Boccanera Gallery di Trento.

Tra le mostre personali: Pushed alla Chambers Fine Art di Pechino (2014) e Pulled alla Galerie Alberta Pane di Parigi (2014) e la performance Electronic Ether presso il Museo MAMbo a Bologna (Smell - Festival dell’Olfatto, 2014). Sempre nel 2014 ha realizzato una performance di ipnosi pubblica al Centre Georges Pompidou di Parigi; ha presentato Circatextian at thingWorld: Triennale Internazionale di New Media Art 2014 al National Art Museum of China; 4thWall, performance e film al Los Angeles County Museum of Art e ha partecipato alla mostra collettiva Rockaway! organizzata dal MOMA PS1 in collaborazione con la Honolulu Biennial. Nel 2015 ha partecipato con il progetto "Neurathian Boatstrap" alla 14th Biennale di Istanbul: : "A Theory of Thought Forms" guidata da Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Istanbul, Turchia.

Marcos Lutyens was born in London, 1964. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Interested from the beginning of his career in interdisciplinary works, he uses cognitive techniques such as hypnosis and technologies such as robotics and sensory tools to create performances, sculptures and installations. His designs are distinguished by the character of continuous experimentation and for their great variety, from surveys to work on air pollution, to the comparison between human and animal sensory perception with interaction between different species. Marcos Lutyens is seeking hidden aspects of daily life, generally invisible or overlooked by any observers, with which he is establishing a deeper dialogue in order to promote a different approach to the real and the environment. He developed research related to cognitive and subjective processes of the inner mind, especially through hypnosis, engaging in interesting experiments with Dr. V. S. Ramachandran, director of the Brain and Cognition at the University of California at San Diego, to explore the neurological pathways of the brain and observe the processes of synesthesia of mind. He has collaborated with Marcos Novak in the context of Education: the Alien Within, and Matt Mullican.

This constant drive for research led him to always work in a social dimension, dealing with specific cultures such as Muxhe, the Zapotec civilization in south-western Mexico in the project Bestiary, edited by Olga Margarita Davila.

He has worked in film production design and set design, particularly with the director and artist Bruno Aveillan. He has exhibited internationally, with an important recognition to dOCUMENTA (13) with Raimundas Malašauskas for Hypnotic Show curated by Carolyn Christov-Bagarkiev (now owned by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Brazil Inhotim), Museum of Absence, Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, MOCA in Los Angeles, the Royal Academy in the UK, LACMA, Centre Pompidou and at the Biennale of Architecture in Venice. He recently has performed at Artists Space, New York, Kunstverein Amsterdam and Kadist Art Foundation in Paris. In 2013 he participated in exhibitions of the highest level, a new experience at the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Belluard Bollwerk International Festival in Freiburg, the inauguration of the structure and the start of a new series of performances in Belo Horizonte, at the Institute of Contemporary Art Inhotim, the Rietvelt Academy in Amsterdam, the Museo del Barrio, NYC and the personal exhibition at Boccanera Gallery in Trento.

Among the solo shows Pushed at Chambers Fine Art in Beijing (2014) and Pulled at Galerie Alberta Pane in Paris (2014) and performance Electronic Ether at MAMbo Museum in Bologna (Smell - Festival dell’Olfatto, 2014). He realized a public performance at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Parid involving hypnosis, he presented Circatextian at thingWorld: International Triennial of New Media Art 2014 National Art Museum of China, 4thWall a performance and film at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the group show Rockaway! organized by MOMA PS1 in collaboration with the Honolulu Biennial. With the project "Neurathian Boatstrap", he did at the14th Istanbul Biennial:  "A Theory of Thought Forms" drafted by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Istanbul, TR, 2015.

Education

1998
Certified Hypnotherapist, American Hypnotherapy Institute

1983-85
Edinburgh University, Scotland - Social Sciences

Curatorial work and Workshops

2015
Thoughtforms and Brainwaves: Neuroaesthetics and Art, 14th Istanbul Biennial TK

Elemental Essence: Clairvoyance and Crowdsourcing , 14th Istanbul Biennial TK

The Thought Forms Test, 14th Istanbul Biennial TK

2014
Presentation for Northwestern University, Evanston USA

2013
Presentation for CAFA, Beijing RC

Schemantics, Alanus Kunshochschule, Bonn DE

Workshop at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam - NL

2012
Talk for X-tra magazine. The Armory, Pasadena USA

2006
Galeria Isidro Miranda, Buenos Aires,  Argentina AR

2004
Lecture,  Ars Electronica,  Linz A

2003
Guest editor of NewArch magazine. Issue based on Emotions and Senses in Architecture

Second Skin, UCE, Birmingham UK

Second Skin, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico MEX

Circa, Mexico, DF, Mexico MEX

Cal Arts, Valencia USA

2002
ArtSci 2002, NY USA

International Festival of Media in Architecture, Firenze

2001-2
Second Skin: building from the space of mind, Ministerio de Fomento ES

Tec de Monterrey, Mexico MEX

2001
Heart Project, Los Angeles USA

Fundacion Centro Nacional de Vidrio, La Granja ES

2000 
University of Irvine, CA USA

1999
Urban Prayer Flags: Committee member World Arts and Culture
UCLA, World Festival of Sacred Music, CA USA

Memorial to Urban Violence, Heart Project & Sci Arc USA

1998
Blown Away, Workshop with HeArt, involving Teenscape, Downtown Public Library and Self Help Graphics USA

Awards

2013
The Subjective Self: Twinnapse, acquired by Fico Foundation, Torino

Catalogues

2019
Cave Canem, text by Brigidina Gentile, publiscer: Boccanera Gallery, Trento

2015
Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days by Marcos Lutyens, which is the last part of the his project for dOCUMENTA (13). Introuction by Raimundas Malasauskas, publisher: Sternberg Press

2013
Social Pharmakon – Solo exhibition - curator Chiara Ianeselli and Kristupas Sabolius, text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chiara Ianeselli and Kristupas Sabolius, Effe Erre Editor, publisher: Boccanera Gallery, Trento

2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Das Logbuch, group show, curated by Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, Hatje Cantz, Kassel DE

dOCUMENTA (13), Das Begleitbuch, group show, curated by Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, Hatje Cantz, Kassel DE

Selected Articles

2015        
Memoirs of a Hypnotist: 100 Days – An art installation that challenges [and shows] that preconceptions are the enemy of new ideas., by Richard Cytowic, in “New York Journal of Books”, on-line, 02/12/2015

The hypnotic show and memoirs of a hypnotist – 100 days Science Dives into a Deep Artistic Fantasy, by Jae Wook Lee, in “TK-21 LaRevue”, on-line, n° 52, 02/12/2015

2014
Sintonizzarsi sulle onde dell’ipnosi. Marcos Lutyens ci racconta il risultato di K-Tanglement, progetto realizzato contemporaneamente in quattro città, in "Exibart", 29/09/2014

K – Tanglement, ovvero collegare quattro città del mondo in un’unità spazio-temporale. Da Milano immagini del progetto dell’artista-ipnotista inglese Marcos Lutyens,by Lucia Grassiccia, in "Artribune", 23/09/2014

In living color, in “Wallpaper”, August 2014

La ricerca di Lutyens, “L’olfatto è arte”, by Nadia Marconi, in “Il Corriere del Trentino”, 20/05/2014

Smell, Festival dell’Olfatto 2014: il profumo diventa arte, by Isabella Falbo, in “Espoarte” on-line, 16/05/2014

2013
Il farmaco e il suo contrario per Marcos Lutyens, by Claudio Cucco, in “Artribune” on-line, 19/12/2013

Interview with Marcos Lutyens – A field of turbulence, by Giulia Palomba, in “Wall Street International Journal Magazine”, 27/11/2013

Un labirinto mentale. Il cervello di Marcos Lutyens alla Boccanera, by Aaron Ceolan, in “Franzmagazine” on-line, 04/11/2013

2012
CO2morrow: Shedding Light on the Climate Crisis, by Marcos Lutyens, Andrew Manning and Alessandro Marianantoni, in Vol. 46, Issue 2, “Leonardo Journal”

The Power 100.  The definitive guide to who’s who in the contemporary art world, in "Art Review", November 2012

dOCUMENTA (13), by Julia Bryan Wilson, in Mousse, October 2012

dOCUMENTA (13), in Kunstforum, August 2012

dOCUMENTA (13), by Michele Robecchi, in “Flashart”, July/August 2012

Special dOCUMENTA (13), in “The Monthly Art Magazine Wolganmisool”, July 2012

2011
Riders on the storm, by Kate Sutton, in “Artforum”, 11/11/2011

Put your thinking cap on, in “The Economist”, 03/09/2011

Absolut Flavour Collider, in “Global Innovaction Report”, September 2011

2010
Contaminazioni e ipnosi, ecco Artissima 2010, by Luigina Moretti, in “Torino Cronaca”, 12/10/2010

Quelle opere che vedi solo nella tua testa, by Guido Andruetto, in “La Repubblica”, 04/11/2011

2019
Island Ark, Alberta Pane Gallery, Venezia - IT

2017
Plantigrade, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles Art Fair, Los Angeles - USA

2016
Reishi Reality, Baltic Triennale, Riga - LV

Trinity River Project, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA

The Memory Observatory, SXSW, Austin - TX and at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas - USA

What People Do for Money, Manifesta11, Zurich - CH

2014
Pulled, Alberta Pane Gallery, Paris - F

Pushed, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing - RC

Color Therapy, Times Square, NY, US, Piccadilly Circus, London - UK

Rembrandt Square, Amsterdam, Nl, Dundas Sq, Toronto, Ca, Orchard Rd, Singapore

2013
Social pharmakon, Boccanera Gallery - IT

2011
SpeedDreaming, Britweek, Los Angeles - USA

2007
RaidFC, Los Angeles - USA

Bestiary Muxhe La Curtidurai, Oaxaca Mexico - MEX

2003
Esomotive, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles - USA

2002
M/A, Silverlake, Los Angeles - USA

Second Skin, Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro - MEX

2001
Emogens, the self at large, Postartum, Long Beach - USA

2000
ParaApnea, Cuban Biennale of Art, La Havana - C

Primordium, California University of Technology, Los Angeles - USA

Antemnesia, Venice Biennial of Architecture, Venice - IT

1999
Bio Rom, Spazio Enne, Rome - IT

Bio Rom, Senchin Buddhist Monastery, Los Angeles - USA

1998
If I'm alone..., 207 Gallery, Los Angeles - USA

1997
Hypnotic Bind, Newspace, Los Angeles - USA

1995
Un Petit D'un Petit , (Humpty Dumpty), Newspace, Los Angeles - USA

1994
La Brea Tar Pits Immersion, Los Angeles, CA; out doors sculpture George C. PageMuseum & City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept grant, Los Angeles - USA

1993
Treeson, Santa Monica Mountains - USA

Re-Member, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles - USA

1991
Una Espia Enamorada, Gamarra & Garrigues Gallery, Madrid  - ES

1990
Transience and Monumentalism, Ruben Forni Gallery, Brussels - B

1988
Reflections on Duality, Modo Gallery, Zaragoza - ES

2019
Cave Canem, Boccanera Gallery, Trento - IT

Estar Sin Ver, curator: Marisa Caichiolo, Havana Biennial 2019, Malecón - CU

The inductive museum, curator: Reem Fadda, Alexandra Munroe, CultureSummit 2019, Abu Dhabi - AE

Semantic Survey of Forms, curator: Gabriella Warren-Smith, collaboration with Richard Cytowic, THECUBE and FACT Liverpool, Londra and Liverpool - GB

2018
Charting The Contours of Time, collaboration with artist Val Lee, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei City - TW

Hypnotic Show, 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo - BR

Universal Solvent, When Tears Water the Sky, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York - NY

Group Therapy, Frye Art Museum, Seattle - USA

Contrast, 9ª. Conferencia Internacional de Arte, Arquitectura y Diseño, Udesign, Mexico - MEX

Beehave, Fundació Miró, Barcelona - ES

The 2 Pop!, Public Fiction: The Concientious Objector,  The Schindler House, Los Angeles - USA

Portable Lanscapes, National Museum of Latvia, Riga - LV

Trinity River Project, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston - USA

Deep Dive or the Limits of Immersion-Virtual Reality Exhibition, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley - USA

2017
The Droplet, L'art de la matière,  AD intérieurs 2017, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris - F

Plantigrade, a Chromatic Fugue for Touch, Synaethesia: What is the taste of the color blue?, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles - USA

Trancefiguration, More Light, curator: Gladys Katherina-Hernando, JOAN, Los Angeles - USA

Ghosttransmission #2 and Trust in the Unexpected, curator: Elena Sorokina and Nico Dockx, Ghen - NI

Trinity River Project, with Laray Polk, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas - TX

Le Désir, Alberta Pane Gallery, Venice - IT

Ambidelious, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice - IT

Armory, Alberta Pane Gallery, New York - NY

Bird of a Feather: Power Trip, The Stand, P! Gallery - NY

2016
Manifesta, Zurich - CH

Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool - UK

Intention to Know: The Thought Forms of Annie Besant, Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Rebuild Foundation, Chicago - USA

Organisms, Curator: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, GAM - IT

Synesthesia, 5 Car Garage, Los Anegels - USA

People in a building without the building, Kunstverein, Milano - IT

Looking for the Meaning of Life, Pera Museum, Istanbul - TK

Reishi Reality, Baltic Triennial, Riga - LV

SK8, Baltic Triennial, Tallin - ES

Survival Kit, Riga - LV

2015
Neurathian Boatstrap, Istanbul Biennial - TK

Perdurity, Yiang Li Museum, Hong Kong - RC

Secret Garden, Ascot - UK

oO mouth derive, Una Noche con Raimundas Malašauskas, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá - CO

Arkheion for Getty Scholars, Getty Residence, Los Angeles - USA

Perdurity, Hampton Court Palace, London - UK

Time Lapsus, Private Residence, Los Angeles - USA

oO, Associação Cultural Videobrasil, Sao Paolo - BR

Alphabet Huts, XII Baltic Trienniel, CAC, Vilnius - LT

I want to dream( 我想要做一個夢), Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei - TW

VideoBrasil, Sao Paolo - BR

Inspired by Soane, London - UK

Phlogiston, Split Museum of Fine Arts, Split - CR

2014
Turbulens, Rockaway!, MoMA PS1 in collaboration with the Honolulu Biennial, Forth Tilden and Rockaway Beach, New York - USA

Thingworld : International Triennial of New Media Art 2014, National Art Musuem of China, Beijing - RC

2013
My Dear Swan, kunstverein ACC Galerie Weimar - D

Historico-Vagabond, Galerie Alberta Pane, Paris - FR

2012
Hypnotic Show at the Reflecting Room, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel - D

Sensory Familiar, Worldly House, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel - D

Global Climacteric, Jaus, Los Angeles - USA

The Bouba/Kiki Experiment, Jaus, Santa Monica - USA

Seeing Ourselves, MUSE CPMI, NY - USA

2011
Laws of Attraction, CFAER, Los Angeles, CA - USA

Festival of Making, London Metropolitan University - UK

Pomona Museum of Art - USA

CAC, Vilnius - LT

2010
LA Art Show, Los Angeles - USA

Inspired by Soane, London - UK

2009
Shangri-LA, 18th Street Arts, Santa Monica, CA - USA

Medical Symposium, curated by KJ Baysa MD - USA

2007
Steve Turner Gallery, Beverly Hills - USA

Isisdro Miranda Gallery, Buenos Aires  - AR

Ars Latina, Mexicali - ME

Open House, Art Center South Campus, Pasadena - USA

CaBoom Fest, Barker’s Hanger, Santa Monica - USA

2006
Corcoran Gallery, NY - USA

2005
El Futuro del Arte, Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires - AR

nTopia, Los Angeles, Istambul - USA/TK

2004
HypnoStadt, Berlin_LosAngeles, Curated by Angela Dorrer - D/USA

Ars Electronica, Linz - A

2003
Intimacy, Deep Inside, Image Festival, Florence - IT

Text, Raid Projects, Los Angeles - USA

LA International, Latch, Los Angeles - USA

St. Paul’s Gallery, Birmingham - UK

2002
WhitneyBiennale.com, NY - USA

Armory Installational 2002, Armory NW, Pasadena - USA

2001 
Festival 103 Delicias, curated by Campanilla - ES

Videotree, Florence - IT

Galaxy, the Armory Center, Pasadena - USA