Urs Fischer: Scratch & Sniff

This exhibition is a compendium of Urs Fischer’s experiments in painting and installation.

The paintings in Scratch & Sniff present an accumulative exercise in the physical building of images, engaging different applications of painting, photography and ink-jet printing layered together to create heightened spatial dimension. The images they conjure or appropriate (as both simultaneously occur within each painting) can be figurative or fragmented: there are oblique portraits, pop compilations and abstracted landscapes. Like a theatre of flat stage sets, each is built from front to back or from back to front: they float between flatness and depth, alternating physical gesture and on-screen experience.