Gina Fischli

Gina Fischli

BornNationalityBased In
1989SwissZürich, London
Biography

Gina Fischli’s practice is characterised by the playful employment of a multitude of different media, including glitter and denim, to explore notions of fantasy, food, materiality and consumption in contemporary society. Cleverly upending notions of scale, fake and real, Fischli sculpts castle-shaped cakes – complete with fondant-like turrets and windows – from polymer clay, as well as large portraits on plywood bejewelled with glitter that depict cocktail glasses and Diet Coke cans. Fischli’s castle cakes are often named after real British and German medieval or neo-Gothic castles, monumental and supposedly haunted buildings, humorously rendered by the artist in saccharine, sugar-frosted technicolour. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Albers (Summer)
Brompton
Capital House
Red Chair
The Roberta
Gina FischliThe Roberta, 2019
341 x 478 x 70cm
To be titled (Ashtray)
Can
Gina FischliCan, 2018
12 x 7cm
The Roberta
Gina FischliThe Roberta, 2019
345 x 470 x 120cm
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