The New Museum announces Zurich-born, New York-based artist Urs Fischer will be the first artist to take over the entire New Museum on the Bowery. For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum to date, Fischer will transform the New Museum’s gallery spaces by creating a mesmerizing environment featuring towering monuments, tangled abstractions, and a labyrinth of mirrors. The exhibition will be on view at the New Museum from October 28, 2009 to February 14, 2010.
The New Museum exhibition will be the culmination of four years of work: neither a traditional survey, nor a retrospective, but an “introspective,” as organizing curator Massimiliano Gioni calls it, the show will combine new productions and iconic artworks, allowing for an in-depth look at Fischer’s practice. Choreographed entirely by the artist, the exhibition will offer viewers the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in Urs Fischer’s universe, which is both spectacular and fragile.
An engineer of possible worlds, Urs Fischer has created sculptures in a rich variety of materials including glass, wood, and aluminum, which he combines with much more unstable substances such as clay, melting wax, and rotting vegetables. In his continuous search for new, plastic solutions, Fischer has built houses made of bread and constructed gigantic teddy bears. He has given life to robots and animated puppets, and dissected objects to reveal the secret mechanisms of perception. Digging up gallery floors and carving massive holes in their walls, Fischer has established himself as one of today’s most radical artists, combining the immediacy of pop art with a neo-Baroque taste for the absurd.
Fischer was included in “Unmonumental,” the New Museum’s inaugural exhibition for the opening of the SANAA-designed building on the Bowery in 2007. He has had a succession of one-man shows in European museums including Kunsthaus in Zurich; the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam; and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He was also featured prominently in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
The picture shows Urs Fischer, you, 2007. Mixed mediums, dimensions variable. Installation view: Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York. Courtesy Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich. -- www.newmuseum.org
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