Omen
2024
Hand-blown, mirror-finish glass
The photographs, paintings, sculptures and installations of Urs Fischer often radically transform the exhibition spaces. Revisiting the classical genres of art history, such as portraits, still lifes, nudes, landscapes, and everyday objects, Fischer spans styles from Baroque to Pop Art. He introduces elements of imperfection that create a paradoxical or transient effect through the use of ephemeral materials. In some cases, these materials do not even last the duration of an exhibition, for example, the large wax sculptures or the bread house.
For the temporary exhibition, Fischer presents the environmental installation Omen, featuring 600 drops of mirrored blown glass made in Murano. Suspended from the ceiling, these drops cascade down like rain, creating a kaleidoscopic immersive effect and a sense of osmosis between the inside and the outside, between the artwork and the city.
Good Luck Peanuts
2024
Acrylic, acrylic spray, enamel on frescoed sand and lime plaster
The photographs, paintings, sculptures, and installations of Urs Fischer often radically transform the exhibition spaces. Revisiting the classical genres of art history, such as portraits, still lifes, nudes, landscapes, and everyday objects, Fischer spans styles from Baroque to Pop Art. He introduces elements of imperfection that create a paradoxical or transient effect through the use of ephemeral materials. In some cases, these materials do not even last the duration of an exhibition, for example, the large wax sculptures or the bread house.
Good Luck Peanuts is a permanent work created for the ceiling of the movie theater at Palazzo Diedo using various painting techniques, ranging from acrylic paint to enamel on sand, and from fresco to lime plaster. Playing on the visual illusion offered by the perception of plasticity, the marked texture of the brushstrokes on the frame, and the deep perspective of a clear sky, Fischer, with his characteristic biting humor, gifts Palazzo Diedo with a contemporary trompe l’oeil.
