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- Urs Fischer Biography
“Urs Fischer: False Friends, Selections from the Dakis...
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Urs Fischer: Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick...
- URS FISCHER Bibliography
URS FISCHER Bibliography. BOOKS. 2021. Davidson, Suzanne and...
- URS FISCHER Francesco 2017
Urs Fischer. Francesco. 2017. Paraffin wax, microcrystalline...
- Urs Fischer Biography
Urs Fischer (born 1973) is a Swiss-born contemporary visual artist living in New York City and Los Angeles. Fischer’s practice includes sculpture, installation, photography, and digitally-mediated images.
Urs Fischer creates works that explore themes of perception and representation with materials such as clay, steel, and bread. See his exhibitions, works, and biography on Gagosian, a leading contemporary art gallery.
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- Education and Early Training
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- The Legacy of Urs Fischer
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Urs Fischer was born in Zurich in 1973 to doctor parents. He has an older sister named Andrea who went on to become a journalist. During his youth, Fischer's parents were often worried as he neglected to do his homework in school and opted out of attending university, enrolling in a technical skills college instead. His father spent his free time r...
Fischer studied Art and Design at the Schule für Gestaltung in Zurich, a general arts-and-crafts academy. Although he did find some passion for photography, he still found that something was missing. During this time, he met Scipio Schneider, a graphic designer with whom he would continue to work over the course of his career. After two years in th...
Fischer burst onto the international art scene following his work in the mid-nineties. He moved between London, Berlin, and New York between 2000 and 2004, showing with galleries like Sadie Coles HQ in London, Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York, Hamburger Bahnhoff in Berlin, and both the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and the Modern Ins...
Fischer has always enjoyed being his own boss while maintaining relationships with many galleries and art dealers. He started his own publishing company Kiito-San, based in New York, where he publishes catalogues of his work and collaborates with other artists and writers to create books of their own. These books are distributed through DAP and Buc...
As an artist, Fischer became increasingly hard to pin down; his oeuvre beginning to form around sculptural works that were highly memorable in their use of three-dimensional objects not normally associated with art. It was also a time when European artists were rejecting the subjectivity of the Neoclassical generation by making work that intentiona...
Learn about Urs Fischer, a Swiss artist who creates sculptures, photographs, and installations that explore the collision of random objects and the transformation of materials. See his famous wax pieces that melt and change over time, and his comments on art, memory, and duality.
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Urs Fischer (born 20 February 1966) is a Swiss football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Bundesliga club Union Berlin. As a manager he has won two Swiss Super League titles with Basel in 2016 and 2017.
Urs Fischer is a Swiss-born artist who creates sculptures, installations, and performances that explore the boundaries of perception and reality. See his biography and a list of his solo exhibitions from 2016 to 2024, including his latest project in Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
Apr 22, 2009 · Urs Fischer (born 1973) is a Swiss-born contemporary visual artist living in New York City and Los Angeles. Fischer’s practice includes sculpture, installation, photography, and digitally-mediated images.
