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8/7/2004

Urs Fischer

Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich

This exhibition presenting the young Swiss artist Urs Fischer (*1973) in the Bührle-Saal marks a new departure in the Kunsthaus Zürich. It is the first time the Kunsthaus has devoted its largest and most prestigious room to a solo exhibition by such a young artist. On show is a comprehensive overview of Fischer’s work. At the heart of the exhibition are new sculptural works which have partly been made specially for this occasion in the Kunsthaus.

Having originally trained as a photographer, Fischer now works in the classical artistic media of sculpture, drawing and painting. He uses very different materials, some taken from daily life and others associated with the more traditional realms of art. Although his works derive from his engagement with his immediate surroundings, anything familiar in these pieces invariably undergoes a metamorphosis and becomes something quite different, even uncanny at times. Fischer’s work resists classical aesthetic conventions and undermines existing hierarchies. Not only does it remove the divisions between art and non-art, it also closes the gap between ugly and beautiful, conflating ideas and materials. Fischer does not set great store by technique and design; in his view immediacy and directness are much more valuable. Drawing copiously on different materials, he creates both classical motifs – portraits, still lifes and landscapes – and sprawling, prolific installations. Undaunted by the spectacular, Fischer takes on large-scale artistic projects that emerge from a processual dialogue with his chosen media and materials.

The exhibition is accompanied by a substantial catalogue in English and German.

This presentation is supported by Swiss Re.

Image:
Urs Fischer, September Song, 2002, Collezione Giancarlo e Sandra Bonollo
© 2004 Urs Fischer


Zurich
Kunsthaus Zurich
Winkelwiese 4, CH-8001

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