The Roberta

Gina Fischli

The Roberta, 2019341 x 478 x 70cmSign in to view price
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MaterialGallery
faux fur, pleather, metal internal framework, mixed media stuffing, plaster, gold leafSoft Opening
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary art piece features a large, black velvet handbag as its primary element. The bag's simple yet striking design draws attention to its unusual scale and proportions, creating a sculptural, almost monumental presence. The use of a common, functional object as the subject matter and the emphasis on its materiality and form suggest a commentary on consumerism, status symbols, and the relationship between art and everyday life. The inclusion of a golden dog-shaped charm and a key pendant hanging from the handles adds a decorative, almost fetishistic quality to the work, hinting at deeper social or personal symbolism. Overall, this artwork playfully subverts the viewer's expectations, inviting them to reconsider the boundaries between art, design, and daily experience. ...

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Gina Fischli
Artist
Gina Fischli
B.1989, Swiss

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 ...

Gina Fischli: Artworks
Albers (Summer)
Gina Fischli
Albers (Summer), 2021
21 x 21cm
Brompton
Gina Fischli
Brompton, 2018
59 x 57cm
Capital House
Gina Fischli
Capital House, 2019
60 x 60 x 72cm
Red Chair
Gina Fischli
Red Chair, 2020
120 x 100cm
The Roberta
Gina Fischli
The Roberta, 2019
341 x 478 x 70cm
To be titled (Ashtray)
Gina Fischli
To be titled (Ashtray), 2020
12 x 10 x 12cm
To be titled (Bird House)
Gina Fischli
To be titled (Bird House), 2020
18 x 18 x 18cm
Can
The Roberta
Gina Fischli
The Roberta, 2019
345 x 470 x 120cm
Albers (Greener)
Gina Fischli
Albers (Greener), 2022
53 x 53cm
Baby Albers (flirt)
Gina Fischli
Baby Albers (flirt), 2024
25 x 25cm
Soft Opening
Gallery
Soft Opening
London

Founded in 2018 by Antonia Marsh, Soft Opening presents UK-based and international emerging contemporary artists, and often their first solo presentations in London. Focusing on work pushing the conventional limits of medium or material, the gallery presents a wide range of media and practices. Soft Opening built its early program with projects that responded to the gallery’s unique first location in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station. Opening a second space in East London in 2019 saw programming strategy develop as Soft Opening began participating in international art fairs and representing artists. Programming is now focused at this East London space. In 2020 the gallery began publishing artist monographs - the first was with Tenant of Culture in 2020 followed by Gina Fischli in 2021 and Sin Wai Kin in 2022. ...

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