Rob Fischer

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Brooklyn-based artist finds furniture, windows, mirrors, books, flooring, car parts, and other abandoned materials and reconfigures them to create large-scale sculptural environments that are like monuments to a forgotten past. Curated by Anne Ellegood.

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curated by Anne Ellegood

Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer finds furniture, windows, mirrors, books, flooring, car parts, and other abandoned materials and reconfigures them to create large-scale sculptural environments that are like monuments to a forgotten past. Fischer’s use of these found materials is a commentary on the lifecycle of objects and how those discarded things will inevitably be reclaimed by nature.

While his constructions contain an aura of melancholy and we feel the loss and the weight of the lingering presences of those who used these objects, the sculptures simultaneously acknowledge the possibility for transformation and regeneration. In Fischer’s work, decay is inextricable from rebirth. The notion of impermanence and recycling is paramount to the artist’s practice, and he often takes pieces apart and reuses the materials in other sculptures. For the Hammer’s Lobby Wall, Fischer recycles wooden floorboards from an old gymnasium to create a labyrinth-like mural that will extend off the wall.

Image:
© Rob Fischer
Bullrider's Advice, 2006
Reconfigured gymnasium floor.
30 x 26 x 14 ft.

Opening 27 november 2009

UCLA Hammer Museum
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Two exhibitions
dal 19/6/2015 al 26/9/2015