Friday, June 22, 2012

Venice: Palazzo Grassi – Urs Fischer – Madame Fisscher exhibition.





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.
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