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Installation view, Honor Titus: Advantage In, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, July 20–September 1, 2023. Artwork © Honor Titus. Photo: Jeff McLane

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Gallery Weekend Los Angeles
Urs Fischer and Honor Titus

July 27–29, 2023
Various locations in Los Angeles
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Gagosian is participating in the third annual Gallery Weekend Los Angeles with two exhibitions. Honor Titus: Advantage In, on view at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, and Urs Fischer: Denominator, on view across the street at 433 North Camden Drive, will be open until 8pm on Thursday, July 27. The initiative is organized by Gallery Association Los Angeles and galleryplatform.la and includes more than one hundred of the city’s leading contemporary art galleries and museums.

Installation view, Honor Titus: Advantage In, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, July 20–September 1, 2023. Artwork © Honor Titus. Photo: Jeff McLane

Urs Fischer and Spencer Sweeney: Headz (New York: Kiito-San, 2019)

Online Reading

Urs Fischer and Spencer Sweeney
Headz

The first volume of Urs Fischer and Spencer Sweeney: Headz is available for online reading from December 7 through January 5 as part of Artist Spotlight: Spencer Sweeney. Housed in a screenprinted box, this eighteen-volume collection brings together the vibrant and varied drawings made during HEADZ NYC—a weekly gathering of food, music, and creativity hosted by Urs Fischer, Spencer Sweeney, and Brendan Dugan between October 2017 and July 2018 in New York’s Chinatown. Interspersed among the artworks are photos of the participants and the space of creative collaboration they activated.

Urs Fischer and Spencer Sweeney: Headz (New York: Kiito-San, 2019)

Gagosian Shop, New York, 2022. Photo: Rob McKeever

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Madison Avenue Fall Gallery Walk 2022

Saturday, October 22, 2022, 10am–6pm
New York
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Join Artnews and the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District on an autumn walk to visit over fifty galleries that line Madison Avenue from East 57th to East 86th Streets. The Gagosian Shop, which offers an exclusive and extensive selection of artist’s books, exhibition catalogues, posters, and prints, is featuring displays dedicated to Urs Fischer and Cy Twombly, including screenprinted T-shirts, limited-edition plates, and vintage posters.

Gagosian Shop, New York, 2022. Photo: Rob McKeever

“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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Announcements

UF on display at 100 Years, Buick Building, Miami Design District. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

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Urs Fischer / UF

Urs Fischer is releasing UF, a new line of clothing and accessories, during Miami Art Week in the city’s Design District. An extension of the artist’s practice, the unique pieces—including T-shirts, upcycled garments, and domestic objects—are based on some of Fischer’s most recent works, such as the CHAOS #1–#501 series of digital sculptures.

First available for purchase through pop-up presentations, UF will debut at 100 Years, a group exhibition that features work by Fischer, presented by Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch at the Buick Building. Following Miami Art Week, the line will be available at Jeffrey Deitch on Grand Street in New York beginning December 8, 2022.

UF on display at 100 Years, Buick Building, Miami Design District. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Still from “Urs Fischer: RxART”

Video

Urs Fischer
RxART

In this video Urs Fischer and FIGS founder Heather Hasson discuss their collaboration with RxART on a project for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Fischer will create artwork to be applied to pajamas designed by FIGS for children to wear during their hospital stay.

Still from “Urs Fischer: RxART”

Urs Fischer

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Urs Fischer
YES

As part of the retrospective URS FISCHER at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the artist staged the interactive artwork YES (2013) at the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA from April 21 to August 19, 2013. To create this large-scale installation, Fischer invited 1,500 California residents into the gallery space to make clay sculptures which then proceeded to harden and crumble over the duration of the show.

Museum Exhibitions

John Chamberlain with his raw materials at Stanley Marsh 3’s ranch Toad Hall, Amarillo, Texas, 1972. Photo: Leo Castelli Gallery records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

On View

John Chamberlain
THE TIGHTER THEY’RE WOUND, THE HARDER THEY UNRAVEL

Through April 7, 2024
Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
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Curated by Urs Fischer and developed in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation, New York, THE TIGHTER THEY’RE WOUND, THE HARDER THEY UNRAVEL is the first institutional survey in the United States devoted to John Chamberlain in over a decade. Spanning three floors of the museum and arranged in an evocative, cross-temporal mise-en-scène, the exhibition embraces Chamberlain’s love of discovery and intuitive approach to scale, fit, and attachment.

John Chamberlain with his raw materials at Stanley Marsh 3’s ranch Toad Hall, Amarillo, Texas, 1972. Photo: Leo Castelli Gallery records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Rachel Feinstein, Mr. Time, 2015 © Rachel Feinstein

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Fairy Tales

Through April 28, 2024
Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au

Fairy Tales explores centuries of beloved folk stories through contemporary art, costumes, immersive installations, and cinema from visual storytellers around the world. The exhibition aims to untangle themes of bravery and justice, loyalty and humility, cunning and aspiration. Work by Rachel Feinstein, Urs Fischer, and Carsten Höller is included.

Rachel Feinstein, Mr. Time, 2015 © Rachel Feinstein

Urs Fischer, The Lovers #2, 2018, installation view, Museo Jumex, Mexico City © Urs Fischer

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Urs Fischer
Lovers

April 2–September 18, 2022
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
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This twenty-year survey—the first major presentation of Urs Fischer’s work in Mexico—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. Together, they exhibit the wide-ranging creativity, humor, and depth of Fischer’s practice.

Urs Fischer, The Lovers #2, 2018, installation view, Museo Jumex, Mexico City © Urs Fischer

Installation view, Before—Between—Beyond: The Collection in Transition, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, May 15–August 7, 2022. Artwork, front to back: © Urs Fischer, © Christian Philipp Müller. Photo: Philipp Hitz

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Urs Fischer in
Before—Between—Beyond: The Collection in Transition

May 15–August 7, 2022
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
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Before—Between—Beyond stages a selection of the Aargauer Kunsthaus’s latest acquisitions alongside other key contemporary works. The exhibition describes new narrative arcs in three chapters, reflecting the past, questioning the present, and venturing a glimpse of the future—sometimes gleefully departing from chronological order in the process. Combining photography, sculpture, painting, video, printed graphics, and drawing with large-scale installations and site-specific works that were created especially for this show, the presentation offers glimpses into the holdings of this public collection of Swiss art. Work by Urs Fischer is included.

Installation view, Before—Between—Beyond: The Collection in Transition, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland, May 15–August 7, 2022. Artwork, front to back: © Urs Fischer, © Christian Philipp Müller. Photo: Philipp Hitz

Installation view, Urs Fischer, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, May 22, 2021–January 29, 2022. Artwork © Urs Fischer

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Urs Fischer

May 22, 2021–January 29, 2022
Bourse de Commerce, Paris
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Urs Fischer’s Untitled (2011) is being presented in the rotunda of the newly renovated Bourse de Commerce. Fischer has reconceived the sculpture to suit the scale of the space, whose Belle Epoque architecture has been redesigned by architect Tadao Ando. The work consists of a group of larger-than-life candles—replicas of Giambologna’s sixteenth-century Mannerist masterpiece The Rape of the Sabine Women; Fischer’s longtime friend, artist Rudolf Stingel; and an assortment of chairs—that are lit and melt down over the course of the exhibition.

Installation view, Urs Fischer, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, May 22, 2021–January 29, 2022. Artwork © Urs Fischer

Ashley Bickerton, Ocean Chunk: Indian Ocean/Aegean Sea, 2021, installation view, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Greece © Ashley Bickerton. Photo: Paris Tavitian

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The Greek Gift

June 22–October 31, 2021
DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Greece
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Coordinated by Massimiliano Gioni, this exhibition brings together a series of new and existing works alongside found objects and impromptu responses from a variety of artists who have maintained decades-long relationships with Dakis Joannou and the DESTE Foundation. Part divertissement and part collaborative project, the exhibition borrows its title from a chess tactic—the “Greek gift sacrifice.” Installed in the small, cavernous spaces of the Slaughterhouse, the works sit side by side like toys in a dollhouse. Work by Ashley Bickerton, Urs Fischer, and Christopher Wool is included.

Ashley Bickerton, Ocean Chunk: Indian Ocean/Aegean Sea, 2021, installation view, DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Greece © Ashley Bickerton. Photo: Paris Tavitian

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2003 © Urs Fischer

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The Paradox of Stillness
Art, Object, and Performance

May 15–August 8, 2021
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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Featuring works from the early twentieth century to today, The Paradox of Stillness examines the notion of stillness as both a performative and a visual gesture. More than sixty-five artists present object-based art, pictures, and actions staged by live performers to test the boundaries between stillness and motion, mortality and aliveness, and the still life and the living picture. Work by Urs Fischer, Piero Manzoni, Tom Wesselmann, and Franz West is included.

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2003 © Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer, Leo (George & Irmelin), 2019 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

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Urs Fischer in
Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s

March 18–June 12, 2021
Riyadh Art
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Part of Noor Riyadh, a new city-wide annual festival of public art installations across Saudi Arabia’s capital, the exhibition Light Upon Light includes thirty works of light art divided into four thematic “rays” that survey light as an artistic medium and aim to unite established artists of diverse geographic origin. From sculpture and video to immersive installation, visitors experience a richly illuminated exhibition. Work by Urs Fischer is included.

Urs Fischer, Leo (George & Irmelin), 2019 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

Urs Fischer, Maybe, 2019 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

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Urs Fischer in
Nature of Robotics: An Expanded Field

November 6, 2020–April 25, 2021
ArtLab, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Offering an unconventional look at the rapidly expanding field of robotics, Nature of Robotics aims to instigate a thought process on the emerging perspectives and scenarios situated at the frontier between science and the visual arts. By presenting speculative creatures, drawings, diagrams, and videos made by contemporary artists alongside scientific projects, the exhibition invites reflection on the place of artificial agents in our natural and social ecosystems. Work by Urs Fischer is included.

Urs Fischer, Maybe, 2019 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

Giuseppe Penone, Propagazione (Propagation), 2020 © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Mauro Del Papa

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La rivoluzione siamo noi
Collezionismo italiano contemporaneo

September 26, 2020–January 10, 2021
XNL Piacenza Contemporanea, Italy
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XNL Piacenza Contemporanea, a new cultural center dedicated to contemporary art, presents its inaugural exhibition, whose title translates to We Are the Revolution: Contemporary Italian Collecting. The show features more than 150 works from eighteen of the most important art collections in Italy. Giuseppe Penone is creating a site-specific piece for the exhibition, and work by Urs Fischer, Ellen Gallagher, Piero Manzoni, and Andy Warhol is also included.

Giuseppe Penone, Propagazione (Propagation), 2020 © Giuseppe Penone/2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Mauro Del Papa

Installation view, Urs Fischer: The Lyrical and the Prosaic, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, October 20, 2019–October 31, 2020. Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

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Urs Fischer
The Lyrical and the Prosaic

Through October 31, 2020
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
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This exhibition brings together a selection of recent works by Urs Fischer, which are shown alongside works by the artist from the Aïshti Collection and a series of new installations, paintings, and interventions. Evident everywhere in the exhibition is Fischer’s fascination with subversions of scale and with shifts from the monumental to the minuscule, and, as the show’s title suggests, from the sublime to the prosaic.

Installation view, Urs Fischer: The Lyrical and the Prosaic, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, October 20, 2019–October 31, 2020. Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

Installation view, Third Dimension: Works from the Brant Foundation, Brant Foundation, New York, November 13, 2019–September 3, 2020. Artwork, front to back: © Urs Fischer, © Dan Flavin

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Third Dimension
Works from the Brant Foundation

November 13, 2019–September 3, 2020
Brant Foundation, New York
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Bringing together more than twenty artists integral to the Brant Foundation’s collection, this exhibition offers a glimpse into the multifaceted practices of artists whose work Peter M. Brant has collected over the past fifty years. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Urs Fischer, Mike Kelley, Adam McEwen, Richard Prince, Andy Warhol, and Franz West is included.

Installation view, Third Dimension: Works from the Brant Foundation, Brant Foundation, New York, November 13, 2019–September 3, 2020. Artwork, front to back: © Urs Fischer, © Dan Flavin

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