 Untitled Candle, 2003 pigment, wax, wick 94 x 99 x 54cm © the Artist, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ Urs Fischer need no chair when walking Urs Fischer's first exhibition will include a sculpture of three women as life-size candles. The figures will violently self-destruct during the show, as the wax melts and limbs start to drop off. Playing on our familiarity with the female nude in art, the sculpture subverts the genre's traditionally elegant and expensive associations. This lumpen version of the Three Graces leaves open-ended both the making and finishing of the object. Also in the exhibition are Fischer's groups of drawings that seem to start as doodles of ideas and images in the artist's head. Having trained as a photographer Urs Fischer now works in a variety of media including painting, drawing and sculpture. His inspiration and materials are grabbed from his immediate, everyday surroundings and his work carries signs of the spontaneous, organic nature of its evolution, further characterised by an easy sense of humour. Ausstellungsdauer: 29.1. - 1.3.2003 Öffnungszeiten: Di-Sa 10 - 18 Uhr Sadie Coles Gallery 35 Heddon Street GB-London W1B 4BP Telefon +44 20 7434 2227 Fax +44 20 7434 2228 www.sadiecoles.com |
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