LUCERNE.- The Museum of Art Lucerne has organized Matthew Day Jackson’s first European solo exhibition in collaboration with the Museo d’Arte Moderna in Bologna and the Gemeentemuseum in Den Haag. Jackson (American, born 1974) recently celebrated major successes with his exhibitions in the USA and London, which resulted in his work being represented in major public and private collections world-wide. Jackson is interested in human existence and he distinguished himself with profound research on anthropology and the history of Western civilization. Highly complex and deeply ambivalent areas of knowledge especially attract his attention, such as nuclear technology and space travel. Correspondingly, his work traces the fine line that divides myth and reality, progress and destruction, technology and religion. In an insightful and virtuoso manner, Jackson employs the mechanisms of the manifold med