Tag: Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer (b. 1973, Zürich, Switzerland) is known for a restless, shape-shifting practice that treats sculpture, painting and installation as unstable, combustible forms. His works often appear monumental yet precarious—cast in wax, bread, aluminium or clay—materials that melt, decay or collapse over time. A life-sized figure slowly burning down, a massive object sagging under its own weight: transformation is not an afterthought but the work itself.

Fischer’s practice thrives on contradiction. High art collides with slapstick, precision with entropy, grandeur with deliberate awkwardness. Images are copied, distorted and reworked across media, while everyday objects are blown up, cast, or rendered fragile. Nothing is fixed; everything feels in motion, as if caught mid-metamorphosis.

By embracing impermanence, Fischer pushes against the idea of art as something stable or permanent. His works stage encounters with time, failure and physical change, turning decay into spectacle and instability into a form of truth. In doing so, he offers a raw, often humorous meditation on how images and objects live, fall apart and persist in memory.