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Urs Fischer

CHAOS #1–#500

August 20–October 29, 2022
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

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Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Installation view Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

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About

With images, you can be part of anything. You can communicate with any point in history.
—Urs Fischer

Gagosian is pleased to return to the Marciano Art Foundation from August 20 to October 29, 2022, with an exhibition of unique digital sculptures by Urs Fischer from the series CHAOS #1–#501 which have been compiled into a set of short-form videos. This will be the first time that works from the series—in which MakersPlace is the technical partner—have been exhibited offline. Additionally, a program of “swap meets” and indoor musical performances will be presented throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Across a wildly protean oeuvre, Fischer mines the potential of materials—from clay, steel, and paint to dirt, bread, and vegetables—to generate an uncanny, unsettling “collision of things.” Through distortions of scale and the reimagining of common objects and images using technological intervention, his sculptures, paintings, photographs, and installations explore themes of perception and representation with an off-kilter wit. Often evoking historical genres and motifs, Fischer embraces transformation and decay, producing art that inhabits a space between the real and the imagined.

The exhibition in Los Angeles features five hundred unique digital sculptures presented as three separate sequences of one- to three-minute videos on a trio of colossal suspended screens. Each sculpture represents a pair of converging objects depicted in relative scale to one another, and while each component is in constant motion, it also maintains an unbroken connection with its companion. All the objects selected by Fischer are human-made and were transformed into their current form by a process of 3-D scanning.

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Urs Fischer: Denominator

Urs Fischer: Denominator

Urs Fischer sits down with his friend the author and artist Eric Sanders to address the perfect viewer, the effects of marketing, and the limits of human understanding.

Urs Fischer: Wave

Urs Fischer: Wave

In this video, Urs Fischer elaborates on the creative process behind his public installation Wave, at Place Vendôme, Paris.

Anna Weyant’s Two Eileens (2022) on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Winter 2022

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Winter 2022

The Winter 2022 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Anna Weyant’s Two Eileens (2022) on its cover.

Urs Fischer and Francesco Bonami speaking amidst the installation of "Urs Fischer: Lovers" at Museo Jumex, Mexico City

Urs Fischer: Lovers

The exhibition Urs Fischer: Lovers at Museo Jumex, Mexico City, brings together works from international public and private collections as well as from the artist’s own archive, alongside new pieces made especially for the exhibition. To mark this momentous twenty-year survey, the artist sits down with the exhibition’s curator, Francesco Bonami, to discuss the installation.

Awol Erizku, Lion (Body) I, 2022, Duratrans on lightbox, 49 ⅜ × 65 ⅝ × 3 ¾ inches (125.4 × 166.7 × 9.5 cm) © Awol Erizku

Awol Erizku and Urs Fischer: To Make That Next Move

On the eve of Awol Erizku’s exhibition in New York, he and Urs Fischer discuss what it means to be an image maker, the beauty of blurring genres, the fetishization of authorship, and their shared love for Los Angeles.

Installation view of Urs Fischer’s Untitled (2011) in Ouverture, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2021. Artwork © Urs Fischer, courtesy Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection © Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Niney et Marca Architectes, Agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

Bourse de Commerce

William Middleton traces the development of the new institution, examining the collaboration between the collector François Pinault and the architect Tadao Ando in revitalizing the historic space. Middleton also speaks with artists Tatiana Trouvé and Albert Oehlen about Pinault’s passion as a collector, and with the Bouroullec brothers, who created design features for the interiors and exteriors of the museum.

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“Swap Meet” drawing by Rob Pruitt © Rob Pruitt

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Swap Meet
Rob Pruitt × Urs Fischer

Sunday, October 16, 2022, 12–5pm
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Artist Rob Pruitt is curating a “swap meet” in conjunction with the exhibition Urs Fischer: CHAOS #1–#500, presented by Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. The gathering echoes the process of object pairing that plays out in Fischer’s digital sculptures by inviting visitors to bring an object and trade it for another. A banquet-length table will serve as a field of action for the exchange of items. This nomadic event has taken place all over the world, including at Frieze London; Tate, London; Karma, New York; NSU Art Museum, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Palm Springs Art Museum, California; and the Yokohama Triennale, Japan. Musician Pete Drungle, who is in residence during the exhibition, will be joined by saxophonist Logan Richardson on the day of the event. The event is free to attend with an exhibition appointment.

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“Swap Meet” drawing by Rob Pruitt © Rob Pruitt

Pete Drungle performing in the exhibition Urs Fischer: CHAOS #1–#500, Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, August 20, 2022. Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Performance

Pete Drungle
Residency

Through October 29, 2022
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Musician Pete Drungle will be in residence at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles during the exhibition Urs Fischer: CHAOS #1–#500. Performing throughout the open hours, Drungle will play a solo piano improvisation that responds to Fischer’s constantly changing works, which are presented on a trio of colossal suspended screens. Through explorations of polyrhythm and polytonality, Drungle deconstructs existing musical modes and techniques in an attempt to expand the language of the piano. The performances are free to attend with an exhibition appointment.

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Pete Drungle performing in the exhibition Urs Fischer: CHAOS #1–#500, Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, August 20, 2022. Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Jeff McLane

Pete Drungle

Performance

Pete Drungle
Chaos

Saturday, August 20, 2022, 12–6pm
Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Join Gagosian for a solo piano improvisation by Pete Drungle to celebrate the opening of Urs Fischer: CHAOS #1–#500 at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. Through explorations of polyrhythm and polytonality, Drungle deconstructs existing musical modes and techniques in an attempt to expand the language of the piano. Performing inside the exhibition throughout the opening day, Drungle will respond to the trio of colossal suspended screens displaying five hundred unique digital sculptures from Fischer’s series CHAOS #1–#501. The event is free to attend with exhibition appointment.

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Pete Drungle