shovels
urs fischer shovel in a hole
in a move that now seems prescient swiss artist urs fischer who was born in 1973 literally pulled the floor out from under viewers for a 2007 exhibition at gavin browns enterprise new york by digging through the gallery foundations and exposing the dirt and rubble beneath . best known for this kind of dramatic transfiguration of the exhibition space as well as for his unexpected transformations of quotidian objects and his lack of allegiance to any one style fischer consistently projects a sense of transience and existential uncertainty . this volume which includes newly commissioned essays by massimiliano gioni and jessica morgan as well as over 200 images of fischers work including installation views and studio shots functions like a search engine cross referencing fischers thought processes . published concurrently with his solo exhibition at new yorks new museum it was conceived by designer scipio schneider in close collaboration with the artist .