06 October – 11 December 2010
Urs Fischer's major exhibition of new sculptures, Douglas Sirk, marks the inauguration of the new Sadie Coles gallery space in London's West End.The artist has built a hall of cuboid mirrors—chrome-steel boxes screenprinted with dazzlingly high-resolution images showing five views (front, back, sides and top) of miscellaneous objects. A high-heeled boot, taxidermy duckling, onion and various other ephemera have been photographically dissected and reproduced across the boxes' five exposed planes in 'hyper-real' definition. The items are surreally enlarged—their amplified scale accentuating their intrinsic forms—yet they hover inside the borders of their reflective portals with cartoonish lightness: Fischer has commented that he intends for the images to "float" and their supports to dissolve.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.