An amazing show of sculpture this week by artist R.M. Fischer. The opening on October 29th was packed with artists of every generation, curators, friends and admirers of his work, who have been waiting to see this body of work which announced a distinctive, fresh direction for the New York based artist. To quote from the gallery press release: "Breaking with the functionalism of his earlier industrial assemblages and public sculpture, Fischer's new combinations of soft and hard forms evoke softly armored figures. Organic shapes crafted out of colorful vinyl, felt, and upholstery and sewn together with thread to suggest body parts. These seemingly upbeat, cartoon-inspired figures are tattooed, pierced, and adorned with metal amulets. Fischer's combination of the soft and the hard elements create a replicating army of fleshy machines suggestive of what William S. Burroughs called the human body: namely, "the soft machine". Fischer replaces utilitarian functionality with a Pop palette and playful figures and forms. The inclusion of orifices, tongues and other fetishes pushes the toy-like sensibility to a polymorphous perversity. This turn of the screw, at once mischievous and more menacing, explores the dark mechanics of popular culture and its sexual underbelly."
R.M.Fischer, his daughter Dena and wife, Patti Page. Tray of RMF initial cookies Patti made.
This is R.M. Fischer's first one-person exhibition here. For the past twenty-five years, Fischer has been blurring the lines between art, architecture and design. Fischer is acclaimed for his monumental site-specific public art commissions and he has had over 30 solo exhibitions, including an exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1984. His work is included in numerous public collections including, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Carnegie Museum of Fine Art.
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