Urs Fischer “Untitled”
Lever House
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Urs Fischer is known for large-scale installations that often feature torn-out walls, dredged floors, life-size burning candles, and vast fields of unfired clay sculptures. For this Lever House installation, he is presenting twenty-six mirrored boxes, with titles such as “CECILLE/BRENDA/ERICA,” printed on all five visible sides with super-detailed silkscreen photographs of common objects encompassing foods, tools, and commercial products, including a banana, camera, clothes-pin, pencil, Tic Tac mints, and a twenty-dollar bill.
Fischer has placed each mirrored box on a painted wood plinth of various dimensions, and randomly scattered them around the space to disrupt the rigid geometry of the architectural space. In addition, he has carpeted the floor and added bright fluorescent lights to mimic the commercial environment in which these objects might be viewed or purchased.
Fischer’s choice of subjects is as random as their placement, and they do not suggest any narrative or socio-political statement. The photographed objects have been removed from their original purposes and proportions in the same manner that Pop artists appropriated common objects during the 1960s.
Fischer was initially trained as a photographer, and these works display his involvement with appropriation, technique, and presentation. Each object is digitally photographed in small parts, from all five vantage points. These small details are then congealed into one singular image revealing no perspective and with equal lighting on all sides. They are randomly sized and fill the perimeters of the mirrored box, and seem to float in space. The boxes are carefully crafted with thin mirror so that mitered joints are not visible and the illusion of reality can persist.
[Image: Urs Fischer “CECILLE/BRENDA/ERICA (detail)” (2013) Wasa: 12.75 x 24.5 x 2.5 inches, Sponge: 15 x 18.5 x 5.25, Alarm Clock: 14.5 x 14.5 x 7.5]
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from February 13, 2014 to July 30, 2014