About Urs Fischer

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Remember....a few months ago @ the New Museum....


Installation view of “Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty” (left to right: Ix, David, the Proprietor, 4:15pm & 4:15pm, Marguerite de Ponty, Miss Satin, Zizi). Courtesy the artist; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photograph by Benoit Pailley.

 
 
 
and ALSO
Urs Fischer, Noisette, 2009. Mixed mediums, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York; Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich.


TO KEEP IN MIND about URS FISCHER:
his work often plays with SIZE and SCALE
he is a sculptor not traditional ' environmental'?
Whitney Biennale
well known for digging gigantic holes in his NY Gallery ( http://www.gavinbrown.biz/artists/view/urs-fischer )
Likes HANDS ON
materials which deteriorate: vegetable bread canddles
Likes Unstabilitty metamorphoses
Sources: http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/417

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