Urs Fischer with Amy Adler
"Cappillon"
Urs just does it for the girls
21 September – 5 November 2000

Swiss artist Urs Fischer presents a new series of works at the Delfina Project Space this Autumn, the first London show since his ICA exhibition. Amy Adler, a fellow resident during Urs Fischer’s residency at the Delfina Studio Programme, has been invited by the artist to include a new piece, ‘Girl Next Door’, as an integral part of this installation.
 
Urs Fischer’s work is characterised by an open and fluid approach to materials and a disregard for practical limitations. The works are a natural extension of Urs Fischer’s lifestyle and studio activities with the inherent implications of romanticism and idealism. The detritus and subliminal experiences of everyday life are allowed to flood freely into the work and remain unrefined.
 
A profusion of images from Urs Fischer’s ongoing series of drawings are presented hanging from a tree-like structure in the centre of the space. The drawings, supercharged by Fischer’s distinctive graphic style, a hybrid vocabulary borrowed from such non-art sources as graffiti and tattoo art, offer a fragmentary insight into the themes and concerns at play in other exhibited works – fragility and brutality, beauty and ugliness, banality and complexity, humour and tragedy.