Live Auction 1511Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Urs Fischer (B. 1973)
Lot 202

Urs Fischer (B. 1973)

Untitled (Holes)

Closed14 February 2014

Price Realised

GBP 60,000

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Urs Fischer (B. 1973)
Untitled (Holes)
acrylic paint on plaster, carved polyurethane and screws on wire, in five parts
ear: 5.1/8 x 13.3/8 x 3.1/2in. (13 x 34 x 9cm.)
nose: 3.1/8 x 12.1/4 x 3.1/8in. (8 x 31 x 8cm.)
arse: 5.7/8 x 7.1/2 x 5.1/8in. (15 x 19 x 13cm.)
willy: 2.3/4 x 13.3/8 x 3.1/2in. (7 x 34 x 9cm.)
mouth: 5.7/8 x 13 x 5.1/2in. (15 x 33 x 14cm.)
Executed in 2006

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Specialist note

‘What we do as artists is not to dissect; we do the assembling. So I just think: ‘I make this; that’s what I do’. I don’t have to justify anything to anybody because when you do that, when you want those kinds of answers as somebody looking at art, you don’t get shit out of it. You don’t enjoy the stuff you see. The advantage of art is that it just does what it does’

(U. Fischer, quoted in J. Griffin ‘Urs Fischer: The reluctant interviewee’, in The Art Newspaper, issue 234, April 2012).