Artist of the Week- Urs Fischer
Fischer’s art, like Fischer himself, is highly memorable but hard to pin down. It consists, for the most part, of three-dimensional objects made from materials not usually associated with art... Since Fischer began showing his work, in the mid-nineteen-nineties, in Europe, he has produced an enormous number of objects, drawings, collages, and room-size installations. Fischer’s pieces range in size and scale from an ordinary apple and pear to a thirty-foot-high metal tree whose leaves are laser prints of more than two thousand of Fischer’s vivid, slapdash drawings.
Review from http://www.newyorker.com
In late 2007, Swiss-born artist Urs Fischer took a jackhammer to Gavin Brown's pristine white West Village floors. A gallerist has got to have a lot of faith in an artist to let him rip through the concrete, upend pipes, and fill the space with a huge open trench of dirt and debris. Faith is precisely what Gavin Brown has in the 35-year-old Fischer, who lives and works in New York and Zurich. On the heels of Fischer's extraordinary hole-in-the-floor show, gallerist and artist teamed up again to co-curate "Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?" at Tony Shafrazi's gallery last May. The event was basically an experiment in outrage and orchestration, where the previous exhibition was minutely photographed and then turned into wallpaper to compete with a new set of paintings and sculptures. The project might sound convoluted, but Fischer's work is overwhelmingly straightforward. He uses everyday materials like wax, fruit, dust, and chairs, and there is always a lingering feeling of loss and decay.
Review from http://www.interviewmagazine.com