One of the extraordinary things about his video is the way that they instantly draw you in, opening a rhetorical chute where you slide past the usual outposts of spectator detachment
How is geometry susceptible to meaning? Is time travel possible? In which direction does space curve? How do journeys to other dimensions appear to the naked eye?
‘More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange experiences.’ Walter Benjamin, ‘The Storyteller’, Illuminations (1923)
Urs Fischer’s work is characterized by happy accidents – slips of the hand and mind that can transform even the ugliest of ducklings into a weirdly beautiful swan
Imagine your state of mind if, up late one night in a halcyon Ecstasy haze, you channel-surfed between documentaries on Glam Rock, Stonewall and Studio 54
The real, the social and the surreal merge in sculptures that reference or employ what Ed Ruscha once described as the ‘unreported artefacts’ of the urban landscape
The artist explores themes of loss and conservation with archaic machines, extinct bird-songs, lost sounds, failed speeches, a stuffed bear, melting money, ticker tape machines, marching music and 86 car horns
