Rob Fischer
Man, The Hammer has been knocking it out of the park exhibition wise lately. First the Valentine-Adelson Collection, then the Burchfield, then R. Crumb, Nic Hess is still in the lobby, and now Rob Fischer? Stop, it’s too much! Just kidding, it’s never too much.
Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer finds furniture, windows, mirrors, books, flooring, car parts, and other abandoned materials and reconfigures them to create large-scale sculptural environments that are like monuments to a forgotten past. Fischer’s use of these found materials is a commentary on the lifecycle of objects and how those discarded things will inevitably be reclaimed by nature. While his constructions contain an aura of melancholy and we feel the loss and the weight of the lingering presences of those who used these objects, the sculptures simultaneously acknowledge the possibility for transformation and regeneration. via…
