Urs Fischer (B. 1973)

Untitled (Holes)

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Urs Fischer (B. 1973)
Untitled (Holes)
acrylic paint on plaster, carved polyurethane and screws on wire, in five parts
ear: 5.1/8 x 13.3/8 x 3.1/2in. (13 x 34 x 9cm.)
nose: 3.1/8 x 12.1/4 x 3.1/8in. (8 x 31 x 8cm.)
arse: 5.7/8 x 7.1/2 x 5.1/8in. (15 x 19 x 13cm.)
willy: 2.3/4 x 13.3/8 x 3.1/2in. (7 x 34 x 9cm.)
mouth: 5.7/8 x 13 x 5.1/2in. (15 x 33 x 14cm.)
Executed in 2006

Provenance

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Literature

Urs Fischer Paris 1919, exh. cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2006 (illustrated in colour, pp. 29-35 and 37).
Urs Fischer: Shovel in a Hole, exh. cat., New York, New Museum, 2009 (illustrated in colour, pp. 140-143).
Urs Fischer, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013 (illustrated in colour, pp. 482-487).

Exhibited

Zurich, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Urs Fischer, 2006.
Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Urs Fischer, Madame Fisscher, 2012 (illustrated in colour, pp. 110-115).

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Lot Essay

‘What we do as artists is not to dissect; we do the assembling. So I just think: ‘I make this; that’s what I do’. I don’t have to justify anything to anybody because when you do that, when you want those kinds of answers as somebody looking at art, you don’t get shit out of it. You don’t enjoy the stuff you see. The advantage of art is that it just does what it does’

(U. Fischer, quoted in J. Griffin ‘Urs Fischer: The reluctant interviewee’, in The Art Newspaper, issue 234, April 2012).

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