Urs Fischer is a Swiss Conceptual artist best known for his large-scale sculptures and installations. Exploring impermanent materials and popular culture, Fischer’s work evokes genres historically associated with painting, including landscapes, nudes, and still lifes. One of Fischer’s primary interests is the spontaneous process of creating and destroying materials. His installation What if the phone rings (2003) involved lighting life-size candles shaped as nude women, to create ever-changing shapes as they burned down to a puddle of wax. “Duchamp’s the guy, the legend, who liberated objects from being second-class citizens,” he said of the influence Marcel Duchamp has had on contemporary art. “Even if his...