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Urs Fischer : kir royal

by Urs Fischer, Mirjam Varadinis, Jorg Heiser, Bruce Hainley

This catalogue documents a major retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich, featuring unconventional installations, altered gallery spaces, and wax sculptures. The works challenge everyday motifs through a blend of humour, metamorphosis, and the grotesque.

Accession 22097 ISBN 2940271453 Publisher JRP Ringier
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The heterogeneous punk spirit of Urs Fischer is in full threat in this catalogue from his recent retrospective exhibition (including many new works) at Kunsthaus Zrich. All materials were considered fair game, and Fischer took every possible liberty in the museum space. He cut huge walk-through holes in the gallery walls and leaned the removed pieces on their edges in the rooms. He made burning wax sculptures, put obstacles on the ground, and hung a DANGEr sign above it all. As curator Mirjam Varadinis says, "the familiarity of everyday motifs is undermined in a process of metamorphosis that renders [the work] uncanny and even threatening." Of course, a dose of humor, drawing upon the grotesque, informs the work as well. You can try to name influences, inspirations, and related artists--Thek, Nauman, Barney, Fischli & Weiss--but Fischer is sui generis.

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