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Battito di Ciglia

Urs Fischer

日期
20.09.2016 | 17.12.2016
地址
Massimo De Carlo, Milano

Massimo De Carlo inaugurates its 2016-2017 season in Milan with an exhibition in two parts by the Swiss artist Urs Fischer.

Urs Fischer is the first artist to exhibit in Massimo De Carlo’s two spaces: at the recently inaugurated space at Palazzo Belgioioso and in the gallery’s headquarters on Via Ventura.

Shifting between the familiar and the unknown, Urs Fischer’s world is populated by sculptures, installations, paintings, and drawings that construct an infinite anthology of mutations. With wit and an often-dark sense of humour, Fischer’s work provokes and evokes, playing with archetypes through the radical transformation of materials.

In the converted warehouse venue of Via Ventura Urs Fischer has created a microcosm of small- scale hand-painted and raw bronze sculptures. The twenty-six sculptures are like poetic vignettes that depict unusual interactions: they are delicate yet at the same time imposing, comical and shadowy as if they were hiding an allegorical secret. The gallery is transformed into a dazing miniature dreamlike tableau that captures moments in time: here these humorous reveries take the form of a satirical play on ordinariness. A barefoot man crawling into a crushed soda can, a nude lady reclining on a chaise longue next to a snail, a crying horse, a rat playing a piano: all these sculptures build a kaleidoscopic anthology of Urs Fischer’s imaginary, drawn from fragments of his career and aesthetics.

In the newly opened exhibition space in Piazza Belgioioso are two new sculptures: using photography, painting, and glass-making Urs Fischer has created two pairs of oversized, highly realistic eyeballs. These almost cartoonish sculptures reflect the viewer and the space at the same time, enhancing the uncomfortable feeling of being followed by a disturbing gaze. Battito di Ciglia is a light-hearted investigation of scale, perception and observation that challenges the spatiality of the gallery and the contemplation of the viewer by playing with key themes of Urs Fischer’s practice: irrationality and darkness, playfulness and research, daydream and sombreness.

Urs Fischer

乌尔斯·费舍尔 (URS FISCHER) 1973年出生于瑞士苏黎世,目前工作居住在纽约。


乌尔斯·费舍尔的作品形式包括拼贴、绘画、雕塑、以及装置,尤其以大型雕塑和装置闻名世界。他从流行文化中挖掘广泛素材,并用日常生活的现成品创作。“每个人都喜欢某件物品;每个人都喜欢不同的物品,”他认为,“归根结底的问题在于,我到底想把什么物品放进创作里。”


费舍尔喜欢创作和销毁材料的随机过程。一个重要的例子是2011年参展威尼斯双年展的同年创作作品“无题”:詹博洛尼亚 (GIAMBOLOGNA) 雕塑“RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN” 的怪异复制,由蜡制成,在展厅中慢慢融化。费舍尔创作的近期倾向与在虚拟世界中打造创新物体和形状的可能性有关。2022年,他在洛杉矶的MARCIANO艺术基金会展示了数字雕塑“CHAOS#1–#500”,以计算机生成的物体为主体,它们围绕彼此旋转交互。无论是用软蜡和食品等短暂媒介,还是数字化物体,费舍尔创作的核心始终是挖掘材料和纹理的无限可能性。

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