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'Madame Fisscher', Venice queen

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The exhibition "Madame Fisscher", in Venice's Palazzo Grassi, offers a journey through Urs Fisscher’s artistic career from the 1990s to today. Fisscher is an up-and-coming Swiss artist born in 1973. This show inaugurates a new cycle of one-man exhibitions staged by businessman and art sponsor François Pinault. At the centre of it is a nude model who walks around, embodying time.

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