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Sep 14, 2021 · By Jessica Stewart on September 14, 2021. Photo: Stefan Altenburger. In 2011, Swiss artist Urs Fischer set the art world on fire—literally—with his melting wax figures installation at the Venice Biennale. Now, his melting sculptures are on view once more—this time at the Bourse de Commerce.
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- The Legacy of Urs Fischer
Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973 to doctor parents. He has an older sister named Andrea who went on to become a journalist. During his youth, Fischer's parents were often worried as he neglected to do his homework in school and opted out of attending university, enrolling in a technical skills college instead. His father spent his free time r...
Fischer studied Art and Design at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich, a general arts-and-crafts academy. Although he did find some passion for photography, he still found that something was missing. During this time, he met Scipio Schneider, a graphic designer with whom he would continue to work over the course of his career. After two years in th...
Fischer burst onto the international art scene following his work in the mid-nineties. He moved between London, Berlin, and New York between 2000 and 2004, showing with galleries like Sadie Coles HQ in London, Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York, Hamburger Bahnhoff in Berlin, and both the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Modern Ins...
Fischer has always enjoyed being his own boss while maintaining relationships with many galleries and art dealers. He started his own publishing company Kiito-San, based in New York, where he publishes catalogues of his work and collaborates with other artists and writers to create books of their own. These books are distributed through DAP and Buc...
As an artist, Fischer became increasingly hard to pin down; his oeuvre beginning to form around sculptural works that were highly memorable in their use of three-dimensional objects not normally associated with art. It was also a time when European artists were rejecting the subjectivity of the Neoclassical generation by making work that intentiona...
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Aug 11, 2021 · a group of ephemeral wax sculptures by swiss artist urs fischer is slowly melting away inside the bourse de commerce . presented in the rotonda, the monumental heart of the...
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Mar 16, 2019 · Wax as a material is now iconic of Fischer's practice, as one that both forms his work and enables its cyclic ruination. Through an exhibited burning of his wax sculptures, Fischer presents this transformation as haunting alchemy; a staged disintegration of the body as poignant metaphor.
May 1, 2012 · Urs Fischer’s Dramatically Melting Sculptures. By Alice Yoo on May 1, 2012. At last year's Venice Art Biennale, one of the standout installations involved a full-size wax replica of Giambologna's 16th-century sculpture The Rape of the Sabine Women. Even more intriguing was that an “everyday” man wearing glasses stood facing the sculpture.
Fischer’s temporary art wax sculptures have become iconic of the artist’s practice. Fischer began making wax sculptures in the early 2000s, resulting in anonymous and crudely cut female forms. Today, his wax sculptures are refined portraits of significant art world figures that are lit like candles and melted over the duration of an exhibition.
Aug 12, 2021 · The exhibition consists of multiple life-size sculptures made out of wax that work like giant candles. One sculpture we see at the center is a large replica of the famous sculpture ‘ The Abduction of the Sabine Women ’ (1579-1582) by sculptor Giambologna. We also see a sculpture depicting Urs Fischer’s peer and friend Rudolf Stingel along ...
