"Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty"

“Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty”
The Urs Fischer show was very large. The pieces in the show were large and the man power it took to install this very expensive show was very large as well. But the smallest piece of the show was the one that I would choose to best describe the show. It was a lifelike tongue that was supposed to pop out and scare people when someone came near it. While I was there one person screamed and three people couldn't get it to do anything. I noticed that the guard was in charge of coming up to everyone and telling them that the piece needs some time between people to work. This seemed like a glitch on the artists part.
After seeing the kitschy tongue piece I could not help feeling insulted by this”fuck you” piece. The museum wall is sticking its tongue out at everyone who tries to look. As if to laugh at us for trying to see “art” where there isn't any.
I was also confused by the monumental sized mirrored rectangular boxes of everyday images seen from all sides. The mundane still seemed mundane. It made me think back to Andy Warhol. And although they looked different than his work, they were very large and intimidating for that reason, otherwise it was hard for me to think of how they were different. I tried to get a better understanding of them and went to look at the titles but that did not make any sense as well. The titles were not meant to fit in any way with any of the parts of the show. It was interesting to walk through this maze of popular imagery but at that point in the show I started to get the sense that this artist uses scale as a way to convince people that his work is bigger than it really is. A way to intimidate and not much else.
The other parts of the show were confusing as well. The candy colored melting structures that would appear on each floor and the huge metal structures. The large structures had gigantic fingerprints on them which gave the piece a sense of humor and made the viewer feel as if they were in a surreal or fantastical environment. This made me once again question the artists intentions. I could not figure out a way to connect the different parts of the show together ,except that every part of it had some kind of illusion or joke involved.