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Apple pickers, rope machines, – ornamented tools and surreal loom-like structures towering over their creators. Lorenzo Bernet’s recent works are a loosely related series of handcrafted commodities and architectural citations, sometimes transforming into ominous scenarios: a landscape that emits astrological symbols, geometric structures growing around food, „folk automata“ roaming the fields… What could be the means of production of a flower child commune could also be transferred to the early beginnings or far ends of the industrial age. „…any Snapchatted concepts of selves absorbing and replacing images of corroding notions of labor and community, are reinterpreted as bucolic sceneries within which copies of spectral drop-out or counter-cultural communes seem to roam and organize.“ The presentation will circumnavigate a vague, essayistic idea of a psychedelic occident, a kind of reversed orientalist template to introduce and connect certain picture motifs of the work. Lorenzo Bernet (b. 1986, Zürich; lives and works in Zürich and Vienna). Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include: Hester, New York (2016); The Duck, with Yannic Joray, Berlin (2015); Hard Hat, Geneva (2014); Swiss Institute, with Jan Vorisek, Milan (2013); Selected group exhibitions: Kiefer Hablitzel Prize, Basel (forthcoming, 2016); Garret Grimoire, Vienna (2015); Spike Magazine, Berlin (2015); wellwellwell, Vienna (2015); Hester, New York (2015); Alte Fabrik/Kurator, Rapperswil, CH (2014); Bernet is a co-founder of MUDA MUDA MURI, Vienna/Zürich, and Darsa Comfort, Zürich.