‘Rooted in a twisted take on reality Urs Fischer’s work unabashedly declares its affiliation to Pop, Surrealism, and Dada, while its production techniques and imagery place the work firmly in our contemporary sphere.‘ (Jessica Morgan)

Providing an overview of the Swiss artist’s heterogeneous oeuvre and features many of his best-known works. Designed and conceived by Urs Fischer himself.

This catalogue is arranged thematically rather than chronologically, with clusters of works that allow the reader to observe how Fischer has explored disparate formal strategies to engage with his multifarious interests, which include gravity, architecture, shadows, representation, destruction, entropy, and time, and revisit favourite motifs – such as furniture, fruit, animals, skeletons, and other surrogates for his cardinal subject, the human body – over the past decade and a half.

This substantial volume includes essays that unpack the dominant thematics in Fischer’s work and examine the significance of the materials and production techniques in his sculptural practice.

Published alongside the exhibition at MoCA, Los Angeles, 21 April – 19 August 2013.