Urs Fischer Swiss, b. 1973
Overview
Sigh, Sigh, Sherlock! , 2004
"If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them, but it's brutal. I like the idea of an artist as somebody who works. A lot of the artists I like share this understanding." -- URS FISCHER
Urs Fischer’s work thrives on the unexpected. Mining the expressive potential of diverse materials and paint to more ephemeral or unconventional substances such as bread, fruit, wax, and dirt—Fischer creates sculptures, installations, paintings, and photographs that disorient and provoke. His art frequently plays with scale, illusion, and the incongruous pairing of everyday objects, challenging viewers’ assumptions about reality, perception, and representation. At once irreverent and incisive, Fischer’s practice is imbued with a mordant humor that undercuts aesthetic convention while raising deeper questions about the fragility, absurdity, and impermanence of life and art itself. Fischer’s work resonates with the shifting sensibilities of Dada, Pop Art, and Conceptualism. His open-ended approach allows for works that are at once playful and profound, collapsing the boundaries between permanence and impermanence, art and life.
He has shown at the Venice Biennale three times and been the subject of major exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Fischer lives and works in New York, NY. His works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
Works
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Sigh, Sigh, Sherlock! , 2004
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