Urs Fischer
Facts
- Biography
- *1973 in Zurich, Switzerland
- Lives in
- New York
- Works with
- Sculpture, installation, painting and drawing
Creating spectacular large-scale installations as well as portraits, still lifes, interiors and landscapes, the Swiss artist approaches his work with a remarkable openness, imagination and inquisitiveness. For Urs Fischer, art and life converge in an ever-expanding system that embraces all of his concerns, and allows him to use everything he sees.
As described by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in Milan: "Tinkering with common objects, and fidgeting with banality, Urs Fischer attacks and wears down daily life. He is an alchemist, a magician of substances: his universe is suspended between art history and underground culture, flirting with punk aesthetics as much as quoting and subverting classical languages."
