Video: Candle Sculptures by Urs Fischer
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In general, sculptures are made of some kind of strong material so that they serve for the benefit of art for years, decades, centuries. But, at the same time, many sculptors understand that everything flows, everything changes. Probably understands this better than anyone Urs Fischerpresented at the Venice Biennale 2011 a series of sculptureswhich are essentially huge candles, the fuse of which was set on fire exactly on the opening day of the exhibition.
We already know how to make a work of art using an ordinary candle thanks to Rajeev Basu and the metamorphoses of his table lamp. So Urs Fischer is doing something similar, just the opposite. He turns works of art into candles.
With this unusual creative method, he performed at the Venice Biennale 2011, which features three sculptures by Urs Fischer - "The Unknown", "The Rape of the Sabine Women" (a copy of a sculpture by the sixteenth century Italian master Giambologna) and "Armchair".
All three of these sculptures are created on a one-to-one scale, compared to the original (a living person, a sculpture and a real chair, respectively) and are huge candles that will burn from June 4 to November 27 - the entire duration of the exhibition (unless, of course, will burn out earlier).
Of course, the wax will melt, drain from the sculptures, and change them beyond recognition. And at the very end of the exposition, the once beautiful sculptures will turn into shapeless mounds of paraffin, in which no one will recognize the original idea. But that's the point! Urs Fischer wants to show with these works that art changes over time, that it does not stand still and, accordingly, none of the objects of art can be absolute.
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