Urs Fischer: Monumental Sculpture Dan Miller Design knockabout comedy and extreme psychological

knockabout comedy and extreme psychological and physiological tension

The enigmatic and uncomfortable scenarios he engineers hinge on the psychological power of the uncanny and the fragmentation of the ego

And they have the look too of the residue not of an individual life but of a culture

where the artist’s self-navigating Ghost Ship was docked in 2005

it might also be seen as a self-portrait

Urs Fischer: Monumental Sculpture Dan Miller Design knockabout comedy and extreme psychologicalThis extensive monograph gathers nearly sixty large scale sculptures and installations made by Urs Fischer over the past twenty five years. The nearly four hundred page volume groups works under thematic headings such as holes, lines, and intersecting objects, illustrating how the Swiss artist has explored and returned to specific sculptural problems over decades, and how his approaches have changed with technology. In color photographs and short