Kir Royal

If Mirjam Varadinis recalls the different (and sometimes contradictory) traditions at the heart of Fischer's practice, she also analyzes the strategies he uses to engage with viewers : “ the exhibition Kir Royal is designed as a mental landscape with an impressive but disturbing visual impact, disturbing because the familiarity of everyday motifs is undermined in a process of metamorphosis that renders them uncanny and even threatening. One cannot, nor does the artist let us, escape the sense of unease that his works provoke. Shades of Bruce Nauman come to mind, and his idea of ‘an art that puts you on an edge ; it forces you into a heightened awareness of yourself and the situation.' Urs Fischer's works are not likely to induce anxiety because they always contain a generous smattering of humor, but they do expose viewers to unexpected experiences.”