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URS FISCHER (B. 1973)
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silkscreen print on mirror-polished stainless steel sheets, polyurethane foam sheets, two-component polyurethane adhesive, stainless steel beams, aluminum L sections, screws, in four parts
Brown boot; each: 57 1⁄8 x 20 1⁄2 x 58 1⁄4 in. (145 x 52 x 148 cm.)
Dollhouse; each: 50 3⁄8 x 38 1⁄4 x 52 3⁄4 in. (128 x 97.2 x 134 cm.)
Executed in 2010. This work is number two from an edition of two plus an artist's proof.

Provenance

Sadie Coles HQ, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa. 2010

Literature

U. Fischer, Urs Fischer, New York, 2013, p. 143 (another example illustrated).

Exhibited

London, Sadie Coles HQ, Urs Fischer: Douglas Sirk, October-December 2010.

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Lot Essay

I just use stuff that’s around me. And those objects, those domestic images, as you call them, are made in human scale, so they can also be related to humans. They’re made by humans and for humans. They speak about us. And they are things you are bound to deal with.
– Urs Fischer

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