ExhibitionMarch 18, 2022
Urs Fischer: Lovers
From April 2 to September 18, Museo Jumex will present Urs Fischer: Lovers, a 20-year retrospective of one of the most internationally celebrated artists working today and the artist's first solo exhibition in Latin America. Organized by Museo Jumex with guest curator Francesco Bonami, Urs Fischer: Lovers brings together new works made for the museum with works loan from international public and private collections and the artist's archive. Collectively, the works showcase the broad creativity, humor, and depth of the artist's practice.
Created specifically for Museo Jumex, The Lovers #2 is a 10-meter-high monumental sculpture made of cast aluminum, stainless steel, and gold leaf, showing two forms that meet, one balancing on top of the other. Installed in the museum's plaza, the sculpture dialogues with the museum's architecture, designed by David Chipperfield, engaging viewers in a play of multiple art historical references that are recurring themes in Fischer's practice.
The exhibition will also feature distinctive works by the artist. In the form of candles, two new life-size portraits include that of philanthropist, visionary, and president of the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Eugenio López Alonso. These portraits will burn throughout the exhibition, marking the inevitable passage of time.
Lovers is organized thematically, and each gallery of the museum offers the viewer a different experience, creating shifts of emotion and perception, encouraging both concentrated and distanced gazing.
Urs Fischer, who is based in New York, began his career in Switzerland, where he studied photography at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich. His works were first shown in Europe in the mid-1990s. Fischer's first solo exhibition in an American museum was Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty, which took place on three floors of the New Museum in New York in 2009. At the 2011 Venice Biennale, he presented a wax copy of Giambologna's late 16th-century sculpture The Rape of the Sabine Women. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Jumex Collection in Mexico City.
Created specifically for Museo Jumex, The Lovers #2 is a 10-meter-high monumental sculpture made of cast aluminum, stainless steel, and gold leaf, showing two forms that meet, one balancing on top of the other. Installed in the museum's plaza, the sculpture dialogues with the museum's architecture, designed by David Chipperfield, engaging viewers in a play of multiple art historical references that are recurring themes in Fischer's practice.
The exhibition will also feature distinctive works by the artist. In the form of candles, two new life-size portraits include that of philanthropist, visionary, and president of the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Eugenio López Alonso. These portraits will burn throughout the exhibition, marking the inevitable passage of time.
Lovers is organized thematically, and each gallery of the museum offers the viewer a different experience, creating shifts of emotion and perception, encouraging both concentrated and distanced gazing.
Urs Fischer, who is based in New York, began his career in Switzerland, where he studied photography at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich. His works were first shown in Europe in the mid-1990s. Fischer's first solo exhibition in an American museum was Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty, which took place on three floors of the New Museum in New York in 2009. At the 2011 Venice Biennale, he presented a wax copy of Giambologna's late 16th-century sculpture The Rape of the Sabine Women. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Jumex Collection in Mexico City.
