"The Making of Yes" features photographs by Cassandra MacLeod documenting a vast collaborative project by Urs Fischer with contributions by 1,500 individuals who were invited to work in clay over the weeks preceding the opening of Fischer's retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art [...]
"Urs Fischer" provides an overview of the Swiss artist's heterogeneous oeuvre and features many of his best-known works. Designed and conceived by Fischer, the book is arranged thematically rather than chronologically, with clusters of works that allow the reader to observe how Fischer has explored [...]
Swiss artist Urs Fischer is best known for his unexpected transformations of quotidian objects and spectacularly disorienting installations. Combining grand gestures with a hallucinatory attitude, his work brings an alchemical approach to materials, images and the human body. An essay by the Tate's [...]
Phantom Paintings gathers several series of paintings on aluminum panel produced over the last three years by the Swiss artist Urs Fischer (born 1973).From far away many of these paintings appear to be large-scale gestural abstractions, but on closer inspection the viewer detects total flatness--the[...]
Featuring over 100 works and documentation of forty exhibitions and installations both public and private, New York-based artist Urs Fischer (born 1973) presents six years of work in this substantial volume.
Arranged chronologically, this book allows the reader to follow Fischer's developments in[...]
MADE IN MIND Myths and Realities of the Contemporary Artist Editor MARTA GNYP Genius, bohemian, social rebel, moral provocateur, charismatic visionary... The artist has always been surrounded by enchanting myths. Today, in a globalized world, images and information are easily visible and accessib[...]
Chef Mina Stone has been cooking delicious lunches at Urs Fischer's Brooklyn-based art studio for the past five years and producing private gallery dinners in the New York art world since 2006. "Cooking for Artists" presents more than 70 of Stone's family-style recipes inspired by her Greek heritage[...]