NYAB Event - Dan Fischer "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"

Dan Fischer "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"

Derek Eller Gallery

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Derek Eller Gallery presents a solo exhibition of drawings by Dan Fischer.

Taking its title, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, from the Futurist masterpiece by Boccioni, this exhibition features drawings of 20th-century artists and their signature works. Fischer’s drawings are devotional homages to artists and images that have had a profound impact on him. Through an exacting process, his works are executed with meticulous attention to detail. He makes photocopies of images from books and journals, overlays them with a grid, and carefully recreates them in graphite. Were it not for the grid, which he often leaves visible, Fischer’s drawings might be mistaken for photographs.

Fischer’s long-standing interests in mimcry, appropriation, and the grid figure prominently in his choices of subject matter. Favorite subjects over the years include Mondrian, Duchamp, and Warhol. For this exhibition, he contributes a small square portrait of Mondrian, peering intensely at the viewer, as well as a studio view which pictures several gridded paintings resting on easels. (Miraculously, Fischer manages to evoke the primary colors of Mondrian’s palette using just graphite). Marcel Duchamp is shown at the age of 58, disguised as an 85-year-old man, and again, posing for Man Ray, lathered in soap bubbles. An image of Duchamp’s iconic urinal is complemented by a drawing of Elaine Sturtevant’s appropriation of the same urinal. A portrait of Warhol holding his novel “a” is included as well as a picture of his Brillo Box sculpture. Also included in this exhibition are images of Stieglitz, Picabia, Brancusi, Manzoni, Boccioni, Hartley, Gorky, Kline, Haring, Prince, and Bourgeois.