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Urs Fischer (Born 1973) is active/lives in New York / Switzerland. Urs Fischer is known for Large scale abstract sculpture, installations.
Following is a copy of a
New Yorker
exhibition review by Calvin Tomkins, October 19, 2009
ABSTRACT: ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about Urs Fischer.
Urs Fischer, the thirty-six-year-old Swiss artist, lives with his American girlfriend, Cassandra MacLeod, in a loft apartment on Bond Street. Any day now, they were expecting their first baby. Fischer was also getting ready for his first New York museum show, which will open on October 28th, 2009, at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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. Fischer's
Bread House
(2004-05) is just what the title says: a life-size one-room alpine chalet whose walls and roof are made from bread loaves in various shapes and sizes. The writer saw it in 2007, in an exhibition at the Deste Foundation, in Athens.
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Mark Grotjahn
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Rashid Johnson
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Joe Bradley
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Urs Fischer
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Art Method
Easel Painting
Installation Art
Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Acrylic Paint
Aluminum/Aluminium
Bronze
Charcoal
Clay, Earthenware
Fiberglass
Found Objects, Junk, Recycles
Gouache
Metal, Metalwork, Metal Plates, Metal Point
Mixed Media, Multi Media
Plaster
Resin
Wax
Wood
Art Subject
Social Commentary, Cultural Issues, Political, Racial Views
Chronology
Late 20th Century After 1950
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