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URS FISCHER. ‘ography Kiito-San. This is the official website and image gallery of Urs Fischer.
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2022. “Urs Fischer/UF,” Jeffrey Deitch, Grand...
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“Urs Fischer, l’Art dans l’Oeil du Cyclone,” Le Figaro, 17...
- Urs Fischer Untitled 2011
This is the official website and image gallery of Urs...
- Horses Dream of Horses, 2004
Horses Dream of Horses, 2004. Portrait of a Single Raindrop,...
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Urs Fischer mines the potential of materials—from clay, steel, and paint to bread, dirt, and produce—to create works that disorient and bewilder. Through scale distortions, illusion, and the juxtaposition of common objects, his sculptures, paintings, photographs, and large-scale installations explore themes of perception and representation ...
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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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- Zurich, Switzerland
View Urs Fischer’s 249 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available sculpture, prints and multiples, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.
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Urs Fischer (born May 2, 1973) is a Swiss-born contemporary visual artist living in New York City and Los Angeles. Fischer’s practice includes sculpture, installation, photography, and digitally-mediated images. Fischer's current studio occupies a large warehouse in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, near the waterfront.
Apr 22, 2009 · Urs Fischer (born May 2, 1973) is a Swiss-born contemporary visual artist living in New York City and Los Angeles. Fischer’s practice includes sculpture, installation, photography, and digitally-mediated images. Fischer's current studio occupies a large warehouse in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, near the waterfront.
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