Venice: Palazzo Grassi – Urs Fischer
– Madame Fisscher exhibition. At Palazzo Grassi the Urs Fischer, Madame
Fisscher, exhibition is on view until July 15. Madame Fisscher offers a
journey through Urs Fischer’s artistic career from the nineties to today. His
work, characterized by humor, penchant for paradox, and virtuosity of
execution, employs simultaneously an extraordinary diversity of media and
materials. It calls into question the history of art and sculpture, our
relationship to the body, the notion of time and the status of the object.
Above. Madame Fisscher installation.
Palazzo
Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition. Urs Fischer’s art, which privileges polysemy
and complexity, avoids any academic weightiness or univocal interpretation.
With its combination of illusion and reality, violence and humor, his creative
universe appears both logical and absurd. The artist creates unstable equilibriums, whose meaning seems to be constantly shifting. The exhibition’s
title itself, “Madame Fisscher” (after the title of the work installed in the
museum’s atrium), points to this rejection of a unique interpretation. Does it
refer to the artist, his companion, his mother, or perhaps to Madame Tussaud
and her famous wax museum? Eliciting in turn - and sometimes simultaneously -
surprise, doubt, puzzlement, and concern, the exhibition unfolds precisely in
this logic of indetermination and movement.
Above:
The artist with Old Pain, plaster, pigment, screw, polyurethane glue, wire –
John Kaldor Collection, Australia.
Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame
Fisscher exhibition. Untitled, 2006, Carved
polyurethane, plaster, acrylic paint, screws wire, 5 parts. Il Giardino dei
Lauri, Citta della Pieve.
Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame
Fisscher exhibition. In Dubio Pro Reo, 2007, found cabinet, found stool, found
bowl, epoxy glue, polyurethane glue, Dimitris Gigourtakis Collection Athens.
“Mr. Watson – Come Here – I want to See You.”, 2005, electric motor, control
unit, electric cable, light bulb, wire. Edition of 2, Private Collection.
Clouds, 2002, polystyrene, wire theathre spotlight with pink gel. Private Collection.
Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame
Fisscher exhibition. Urs Fischer sculpture installation.
Francois Pinault
Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame
Fisscher exhibition. Spinoza Rhapsody,
2006. Mackintosh Staccato, 2006. Untitled, 2010. A Thing Called Gearbox, 2004.
Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame
Fisscher exhibition. Meme, 2012. acrylic primer, polyester filler,
two-component polyester body filler, urethane primer, polyester paint, acrylic
polyurethane matte clearcoat, 2 parts, Private collection.
Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame
Fisscher exhibition. Blanched, 2011 and
Boiled, 2011, milled aluminum panel, acrylic primer, gesso, acrylic ink, acrylic
silkscreen medium, acrylic paint, Private Collection.
Urs Fischer and Francois Pinault
Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame
Fisscher exhibition. Untitled, 2011, paraffin wax mixture, pigment, steel, wicks. Edition of 3 -1AP, Francois Pinault
Foundation.
Palazzo Grassi: Urs Fischer – Madame
Fisscher exhibition. Caroline Bourgeois, curator of the exhibition sits
behind the Cappillon, 2000 installation.
