URS FISCHER

Gagosian is pleased to announce Ice Cream Truck Democracy, an exhibition of paintings by Urs Fischer opening in Beverly Hills on March 9. In this new series of works, which occupies a range of sizes and formats, Fischer combines silkscreened, hand-painted, and hand-stencilled imagery, applying a collage-like aesthetic to his personal observations of Los Angeles.

Rather than aiming for a comprehensive portrait of the city, Fischer evokes the experience of moving—by car, bike, or foot—through a visually rich and ever-changing metropolitan environment that is impossible to pin down through singular, static depiction. Incorporating fragments of his own photographs, his new paintings blend figuration and abstraction, reflecting a characteristically American preference for the fragmented and the episodic over central or iconic imagery. Each complex urban landscape tells, in Fischer’s phrase, ‘a tale of ten cities.’