Arte in video Brera e Urs Fisher

Oggi un giro a Brera 

La giornalista e curatrice Judith Benhamou-Huet conduce un tour della mostra "Urs Fischer: Leo" a Gagosian, Parigi, che sarà in mostra dal 14 ottobre al 20 dicembre 2019:

Urs Fischer da Sadie Coles a Londra

Ultimi giorni per la particolare installazione di Urs Fisher alla Sadie Coles, al 62 di Kingly Street a Londra

Photography: Mats Nordman‏

Press Release: 

Urs Fischer’s new exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ centres on an installation of 3,000 plaster raindrops suspended throughout the gallery. Titled Melodrama, the raindrops encompass a spectrum of shades from green to lilac, massing together into a gently psychedelic storm cloud which weaves in a swirling movement through the space. Yet their forms are incongruously physical – each droplet is a bulbous pendant cast from a hand-modelled prototype, and hangs from the ceiling by lengths of near-invisible monofilament. The installation’s romantic overtones collide with a bluntly cartoonish quality, bordering on the slapstick, that resonates with the double-edged register of much of Fischer’s art.

The heaviness and irregularity of the objects compound their lurking air of oddness. The arrayed drops begin to resemble other free-floating bodies – tangible or virtual, magical or mundane – from a swarm of gloopy commas to squirts of icing. They are emblematic of a strain of fairytale-style surrealism that pervades Fischer’s work, manifested variously by his wryly anthropomorphic furniture (including a lilac-hued grand piano collapsing droopingly like one of Dalí’s melting watches) or by the wax effigies which slowly implode into formlessness as wicks burn within them. Myriads of coloured droplets have featured explicitly in Fischer’s earlier work. This is the third in a series of expansive installations of raindrops including Vintage Violence (2004–05) and Horses Dream of Horses (2004), which respectively present blood-red and turquoise explosions of droplets. In more recent works such Secret (2012–13), globular raindrops are printed in dense clusters across the large, sultry headshots of 1950s Hollywood idols.

Mirroring the hand-sculpted forms of the raindrops are new sculptures in clay. Much of Fischer’s recent work has employed this medium: in 2011, he began an on-going public art project in which members of the public are invited to make objects out of freely supplied clay. Here, a single figurative sculpture is repeated in clay throughout the gallery, teasing out a dualism between originals and copies that has underpinned much of his art. In 2011, in the latest (and perhaps most literal) in a string of references to the working space of the artist’s studio, he collaborated with German artist Georg Herold in modelling clay figures from nude models; the objects were then exhibited alongside the same nude figures. Here, the sculptures appear metamorphic and unstable, redolent not only of tragic Pompeian casts but also the melting figures of Medardo Rosso (themselves often only preserved in the mediated form of photographs). Collectively, these sculptures describe an earthbound world of disorderly, golem-like forms in contrast with the symphony of suspended shapes above. The floor-based works and the raindrops constitute a ‘heaven and earth’ tableau that is at once pointedly familiar and otherworldly.

Urs Fischer (b. Switzerland, 1973) traverses the fields of painting, sculpture and installation, as well as photography and drawing, in a multifaceted body of work that eludes formal or generic categorisation, coaxing comparisons with the multifarious practices of Martin Kippenberger, Franz West, Fischl i & Weiss, and others. His work simultaneously echoes the shifting moods of Dada, Pop Art and conceptualism; and he deploys a dizzying range of materials from food to mirrors to dirt. Urs Fischer lives in New York. Recent major exhibitions include those at MOCA, Los Angeles, 2013; Madame Fisscher, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, 2012; and Skinny Sunrise, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2012. He has had solo shows throughout Europe and the USA, including Oscar the Grouch, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich (CT) (2010) and Marguerite de Ponty, New Museum, New York (2009). In 2004, Not My House Not My Fire took place at Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the retrospective Kir Royal was held at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. Urs Fischer’s work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale in 2003, 2007, and 2011.

For f urther inf ormation please contact the gallery at +44 (0)20 7493 8611 or press@sadiecoles.com

Station to station - Estate, tempo di viaggi, anche per l’arte…

La Levi’s,per festeggiare i suoi 140 anni di attività sta per ralizzare un progetto in ambito artistico dal titolo “Station to Station” coordianto con Doug Aitken. Si tratta di un treno “artistico” che viaggerà da New York a San Francisco. Ogni tappa sarà un evento corale fra arte, musica e declinazioni varie, spesso in importanti musei, come il MoMA PS1, Carnegie Museum of Art, il Museum of Contemporary Art di Chicago, Walker Art Center, SITE Santa Fe, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), e il Museo di San Francisco of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

All’iniziativa partecipano anche altri artisti quali : Kenneth Anger, Olaf Breuning, Peter Coffin, Urs Fischer, Meschac Gaba, Liz Glynn, Carsten Höller, Christian Jankowski, Aaron Koblin, Ernesto Neto, Jack Pierson, Stephen Shore, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner. Ci sono anche musicisti del calibro di Ariel Pink, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Connan Mockasin, Dan Deacon, David Longstreth dei Dirty Projectors, Eleanor Friedberger, Nite Jewel, No Age, Savages, e Twin Shadow. Scrittori Dave Hickey, Barney Hoskyns, e Rick Moody; e chef Alice Waters e Leif Hedendal, e il progetto Edible Schoolyard.

L’evento servirà anche per raccogliere fondi per nuovi progetti artistici, in uno spirito di condivisione e innovazione.

Ecco le tappe del viaggio che inizia il 6 Settembre a New York, New York,

08 Settembre Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

12 Settembre Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota

14 Settembre Chicago, Illinois

16 Settembre Kansas City, Missouri

20 Settembre Lamy / Santa Fe, Nuovo Messico

22 Settembre Winslow, Arizona

24 Settembre Barstow, California,

26 Settembre Los Angeles, California

28 Settembre Oakland / San Francisco, California

In questo modo la nota marca di jenseria Levi’s festeggia il suo lungo percorso di attività, con uno spirito pionieristico e contemporaneo.

Alcune foto dal lungo viaggio