Author Description

During a two-week period in May 2006, the peripatetic Swiss artist Urs Fischer worked on-site in Houston to create a site-specific installation for Blaffer Gallery. The artist again redefined the white cube, transforming space and offering viewer's a vastness sparsely inhabited by sculptures abstract, whimsical, concrete, and abject, but ultimately revolving around the body and, by extension, the human condition. Fischer reminds us that any notion of reality is relative and that the extraordinary - the surreal as well as the uncanny - is all around us.