I was wondering why the name Urs Fischer was familiar. It's the gigantic pit he dug in a gallery floor.
You, 2007
He has a mountain of work that I don't even know how to begin navigating, but this piece in particular really intrigues me.
The contrast between the pristine whiteness of the gallery walls is striking against the mess of the pit
You simultaneously attacks and fetishizes the attributes of galleries, the qualities that the critic Brian O’Doherty has described as “something of the sacredness of churches, the austerity of courtrooms, the mysteriousness of research laboratories, something that, together with stylish designs, makes them unique cultic places of the aesthetic.” [link]
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