Urs Fischer provides an overview of the Swiss artist’s heterogeneous oeuvre and features many of his best-known works. Designed and conceived by Fischer, the book is arranged thematically rather than chronologically, with clusters of works that allow the reader to observe how Fischer has explored disparate formal strategies to engage with his multifarious interests--which include gravity, architecture, shadows, representation, destruction, entropy and time--and revisit favorite motifs, such as furniture, fruit, animals, skeletons and other surrogates for his cardinal subject, the human body, over the past decade and a half. Produced for his retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, this hefty volume includes essays by Jessica Morgan and Ulrich Lehmann that unpack the dominant thematics in Fischer’s work and examine the significance of the materials and production techniques in his sculptural practice.
Featured image is reproduced from Urs Fischer.
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Featured image - Urs Fischer's "Untitled (Lamp / Bear)" (2005–2006) installed at the home of Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann in Montauk, New York, in 2009 - is reproduced from Urs Fischer, published by Kiito-San for the artist's current 65,000 square foot, 2-venue retrospective at LA MOCA, on view through August 19. Weighing in at 650 pages, this heavily illustrated brick of a monograph is the definitive publication on this ambitious Swiss pop-surrealist, whose work has never before been surveyed by an American museum. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 650 pgs / illustrated throughout. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 ISBN: 9780984721047 PUBLISHER: Kiito-San AVAILABLE: 6/30/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: NA ME
Published by Kiito-San. Text by Jessica Morgan, Ulrich Lehmann.
Urs Fischer provides an overview of the Swiss artist’s heterogeneous oeuvre and features many of his best-known works. Designed and conceived by Fischer, the book is arranged thematically rather than chronologically, with clusters of works that allow the reader to observe how Fischer has explored disparate formal strategies to engage with his multifarious interests--which include gravity, architecture, shadows, representation, destruction, entropy and time--and revisit favorite motifs, such as furniture, fruit, animals, skeletons and other surrogates for his cardinal subject, the human body, over the past decade and a half. Produced for his retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, this hefty volume includes essays by Jessica Morgan and Ulrich Lehmann that unpack the dominant thematics in Fischer’s work and examine the significance of the materials and production techniques in his sculptural practice.
