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Lucie Stahl, 'Brown Bear' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Lucie Stahl, 'Mascot Face-Off' (2017). Install view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Lucie Stahl, End of Tales (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Lucie Stahl, 'End of Tales' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Lucie Stahl, End of Tales (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Lucie Stahl, 'Bear Load' (2017). Install view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Lucie Stahl, 'Powder' (2017). Install view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Lucie Stahl, 'American Eagle' (2017) Installation view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Lucie Stahl, 'American Eagle' (2017) Detail view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.
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Team spirit + national identity in the preemptive strike of Lucie Stahl’s End of Tales at Freedman Fitzpatrick

, 16 August 2017
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Lucie Stahl is presenting solo exhibition End of Tales at Los Angeles’ Freedman Fitzpatrick, which opened July 30 and is running to September 2.

Lucie Stahl, ‘Hog Hammer’ (2017). Install view. Courtesy the artist + Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles.

The room shrinks in size as two large tents fill the space, each one with a different slogan written upside down: ‘American Eagle’ and ‘Browns Bears.’ Inside the red marquee are folding chairs, magazines, rose stems and electric tea candles. The green one is filled with canvas, copper, scattered roses and a folding cot with a teddy bear on top. Hung around the walls are mixed-media works made of inkjet prints, collage inside plexiglass, aluminum and epoxy resin.

Through a language of humour and critique, the Berlin-based artist explores the space where competitive sports becomes tangled up with national identity and war in “BE AGGRESSIVE, B-E AGGRESSIVE, B-E-A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E.”  Here, as stated in the press release, “The global is local. The personal is political. Man up. Stand by your man. Protect your team.” **

Lucie Stahl’s End of Tales solo exhibition is on at Los Angeles’ Freedman Fitzpatrick, running July 30 to September 2, 2017.

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