{"id":45787,"date":"2022-10-20T13:55:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=45787"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:01:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:01:57","slug":"rob-pruitt-urs-fischer-a-look-back-to-the-2000s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2022\/10\/20\/rob-pruitt-urs-fischer-a-look-back-to-the-2000s\/","title":{"rendered":"~ROB PRUITT & URS FISCHER . . a look back to the 2000s"},"content":{"rendered":"

a look back to the 2000s \/
\na look back – the . . . FUTURE !!!!!!!<\/p>\n

a super quick – DIY . . . LOOK BACK !!
\nto their ‘collective’ influence – on the art scene of today \/
\nesp re DYI, re-thinking of standard gallery exhibition concepts,
\nand, of course their own take on: art-infused . . utilitarian,
\ncommon – everyday objects. and, not to minimize – the shock of their cheerful breaking of the rules of what defined ‘serious’ art.<\/p>\n

most notably:<\/em><\/p>\n

ROB PRUITT, in 2008:
\nshook everybody up with his on-site, DIY WATERFALL !!!
\nexcept Roberta Smith, who called it “sophomoric” in her NYT review.
\nI think mostly because, it had supposedly “1,000 crushed Viagra capsules in the raging water that ran down the gallery steps”, and, of course !!
\nRob called the piece, ‘VIAGRA FALLS’ . . !!!
\nI guess these guys, also broke the rule of – you can’t be funny ?<\/p>\n

everybody else was blown-away – to see the mad rushing cascade of water, roaring down the upscale gallery entryway, Viagra pills or not \/ as DIY as you could ever hope to be, and had never ever seen anything as – audacious before.
\nthe water flowing through . . extreme DIY plastic bags, and then re-cycled back up – by a hidden pump.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

ROB PRUITT, ‘Viagra Falls’, in the exhibit:
\n‘Whose Afraid of Jasper Johns’, conceived by Urs Fischer & Gavin Brown,
\nTony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC.
\nMay 9 – July 12, 2008<\/p>\n

all Photos:<\/strong> NANCY SMITH
\nsee:<\/strong> the original 2008 artloversnewyork report<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthen . . .
\nthere was <\/strong>the time, Rob Pruitt nonchalantly parked . . . a glorious \/ DIY waterfall !!!!
\nthat danced about the back-end, of a standard 4 x 4 pickup truck, how Americana \/
\nhow DIY – can you get ?!!!
\non the street, outside his opening for ‘Multiple Personalities’, GBE \/
\nGavin Brown’s enterprise, when it was downtown \/ 620 Greenwich St. on the West Side, NYC.
\nSept 13, 2014.
\nPhoto:<\/strong> NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n

then,
\nthere was<\/strong> the time . . . in 2005 !!!!
\nwhen DIY legend-to-be, URS FISCHER . . . built a life-size<\/strong> house,
\nconstructed from bread (alone) !! – in Gavin’s now legendary, downtown gallery, on Greenwich Street. which was in itself, a most glorious exhibition site, with great spatial volume, and natural light that emanated from the huge glass walls \/ & sited on the most ideal corner lot, ever. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nURS FISCHER, ‘BREADHOUSE’, GBE \/ Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Downtown, West Side NYC
\nFEB 18, 2005
\nPhoto:<\/strong> NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nURS FISHER at the opening of:
\n‘Fig, Nut and Pear’, still one of my most fav – exhibition titles,
\na knock-out show, in which the crusty, ‘Breadhouse’ was also first presented \/
\nUrs is standing in front of his large painting, ‘A Novel and a Novelist’, and you
\njust knew – he was destined for super stardom.
\nFeb 18, 2005
\nPhoto:<\/strong> NANCY SMITH <\/p>\n

and, don’t<\/strong> even get me started,
\non that time URS FISCHER dug a hole, into the floor of Gavin’s gorgeous gallery. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nURS FISCHER, ‘You’, 2007 – a seriously excavated hole \/ in the gallery.
\npictured in ‘the hole’, on opening night, from left:
\nTony Shafrazi, Peter Brant, and Gavin Brown.
\nGBE \/ Gavin Brown’s enterprise, 620 Greenwich St, West Side, Downtown NYC
\nNov 24, 2007
\nPhoto:<\/strong> NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

a look back to the 2000s \/ a look back – the . . . FUTURE !!!!!!! a super quick – DIY . . . LOOK BACK !! to their ‘collective’ influence – on the art scene of today \/ esp re DYI, re-thinking of standard gallery exhibition concepts, and, of course their own take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45787"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45806,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45787\/revisions\/45806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}