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I made a selection of photographs that I took recently and some old vintage black & white ones that I have found in my family albums. I mounted them on boards so that I have a flat solid surface to work on. When trying to figure out what to do next I came across Fisher’s work. His uncanny ability to envisage and produce objects on the brink of falling apart or undergoing psychic transformation has resulted in sculptures in a bewildering variety of materials, including unstable substances such as melting wax and rotting vegetables. Continuously searching for new sculptural solutions, he has built houses out of bread; enlivened empty space with mechanistic jokes; deconstructed objects and then replicated them; and transferred others from three dimensions to two and back again via photographic processes. He combines daring formal adventures in space, scale, and material with a mordant sense of humor.
Urs Fischer was born in 1973 in Zurich, and studied at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich. His work is included in many important public and private collections worldwide. Recent major exhibitions include “Kir Royal,” Kunsthaus Zurich (2004); “Not My House Not My Fire,” Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2005); “Mary Poppins,” Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas (2006); “Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty,” New Museum, New York (2009); and “Oscar the Grouch,” The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut (2010); as well as the Biennale di Venezia in 2003, 2005, and 2007. Fischer lives and works in New York City.
URS FISCHER, TBD, 2015, aluminum panel, aramid honeycomb, two-component polyurethane adhesive, two-component epoxy primer, galvanized steel rivet nuts, acrylic primer, gesso, acrylic ink, acrylic silkscreen medium, and acrylic paint, 132 1/2 × 106 × 7/8 inches (336.6 × 269.2 × 2.2 cm) © Urs Fischer. Photo by Mats Nordman
[2] Urs Fischer, Problem Painting, 2011, milled aluminum panel, acrylic primer, gesso, acrylic ink, spray enamel, acrylic silkscreen medium, and acrylic paint, 142 × 106 inches (360.7 × 269.2 cm) © Urs Fischer. Photo by Mats Nordman
Gagosian.com. (2015). Urs Fischer Fountains – September 15 – October 17, 2015. [online] Available at: https://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/urs-fischer–september-15-2015 [Accessed 6 May 2018].
Michalis Theodosiou 