Urs Fischer

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.6 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Urs Fischer is a contemporary artist renowned for his experimental and highly unpredictable practice of sculpture, installation, painting, and photography. He often uses unconventional materials, such as wax, bread, and everyday objects, which he employs to explore themes of transformation, impermanence, and creative destruction, allowing his works to transform or decay over time. Fischer’s work, influenced by movements like Surrealism and Pop Art, is marked by a dynamic interplay between construction and deconstruction, permanence and ephemerality, inviting audiences to reconsider the boundaries of art and the fleeting nature of existence. Fischer has held major solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthaus Zürich, the New Museum in New York, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, MOCA in Los Angeles, and galleries including Sadie Coles HQ in London and Gagosian locations worldwide—most recently at Gagosian Gstaad in Switzerland. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Athletic Nicotine https://www.athleticnicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

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0:00.0	Tetrogramminton Where does art come from?
0:26.6	Where does anything come from?
0:29.6	Why do I have a thought after I had after the next part after the next part?
0:34.6	Why does it move in one direction?
0:38.3	And why do you want to make another thing and another thing?
0:44.3	And where does that come from that comes to you?
0:47.3	And some of it becomes more mysterious.
0:51.3	And other things become like to take on a kind of form that I understand better.
1:01.0	Like I think recently a lot about vectors.
1:05.0	First of all I was working with this kid and we use a lot of vectors into design stuff.
1:10.0	And if you have a vector, it never makes an abrupt move.
1:13.6	Like if you pull it here, it goes there.
1:16.6	There is something to a vector.
1:19.6	It's like a wave.
1:20.6	And I even feel that at the moment, like breathing or whatever or tension in the body,
1:26.6	you feel this and you like how there is a
1:29.0	and what I kind of like about the vector at the moment is there is a linear direction of movement
1:35.2	to this you know that I often think when you make stuff that it is on a not on a a line, but more on a moving thing.
1:47.4	It's like rolling through?
1:49.5	I think it's more like on a wave or on something, but it's the same in your mind.
1:55.0	Like what makes your mind want to have the next thought after you just, it keeps going?
2:02.7	Or even the first thought, what does it come from?
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