Urs Fischer
dal 27/1/2003 al 1/3/2003
Segnalato da
27/1/2003
Urs Fischer
Sadie Coles HQ (old location), London
Urs Fischer's first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ will include a sculpture of three women as life-size candles. The figures will violently self-destruct during the show, as the wax melts and limbs start to drop off. Playing on our familiarity with the female nude in art, the sculpture subverts the genre's traditionally elegant and expensive associations through the artist's choice of material and how it dictates the evolution of the form.
need no chair when walking
Urs Fischer's first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ will include a sculpture of
three women as life-size candles. The figures will violently self-destruct
during the show, as the wax melts and limbs start to drop off. Playing on our
familiarity with the female nude in art, the sculpture subverts the genre's
traditionally elegant and expensive associations through the artist's choice of
material and how it dictates the evolution of the form. This lumpen version of
the Three Graces leaves open-ended both the making and finishing of the object.
Also in the exhibition are Fischer's groups of drawings that seem to start as
doodles of ideas and images in the artist's head.
Having trained as a photographer Urs Fischer now works in a variety of media
including painting, drawing and sculpture. His inspiration and materials are
grabbed from his immediate, everyday surroundings and his work carries signs of
the spontaneous, organic nature of its evolution, further characterised by an
easy sense of humour. Fischer has had solo shows at Stedelijk Museum Bureau,
Institute of Contemporary Art, London and the Kunsthaus Glarus. Born in Zurich
in 1973, he lives and works in Berlin, Zurich and Los Angeles.
private view Tues 28 Jan, 6-8pm
Image: Urs Fischer, Human Layers, 1999
silicon, plaster, fruit, clay and acrylic paint
50 x 45 x 20cm
Courtesy Anne Faggionato, London
Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London
For further information please contact Sara Harrison on +44 20 7434 2227
Sadie Coles HQ
35 Heddon Street W1B 4BP London