Urs Fischer
Arcimboldo, 2019
Aluminum composite panel, aluminum honeycomb, two-component adhesive, primer, gesso, and solvent-based screen-printing ink
96 × 76 3/4 inches (243.8 × 194.9 cm)
$775,000
In the large-scale panel painting Arcimboldo, Urs Fischer superimposes hyperrealistic images of fruits, vegetables, and eggs over a colorized vintage Hollywood headshot, bringing the ubiquitous and banal into whimsical collision with a symbol of idealized, unattainable glamour.
