He mostly gets by on magazine-illustration work; the juxtaposition of Fischer's soft foibles and the brutal magazine story he's illustrating, about factory suicides in China, provides a jarring background throughout the book.
This isn't wholly dissimilar from how theoretical physicists working on chalk boards view their work in juxtaposition to applied physicists in cutting-edge linear accelerators.
No concept car is complete without highly stylised wheels, and while the Lincoln's 15-spoke alloys are borderline fussy, evoking a turbocharger's vanes, fussy might just work in juxtaposition with the softer, simpler body sculpture.
The UK-based Chinese artist will present his new body of work, a juxtaposition of Western pop culture and Eastern traditionalism, at his solo show at the Fine Arts Society in London opening October 18th.
"When you see the works in juxtaposition a light goes on and you see a new meaning".
If time plotting reveals meaning by putting events in a particular order, then space plotting works by juxtaposition.
The film works from juxtaposition by turns shocking, bizarre and gorgeous: so a room of skulls bounce up against the terracotta army; a felled tree contrasts with battery farming; burning oil wells blend with bouncing African tribal rituals; a monkey in a hot spring is followed by an astonishing sequence of massed arm-waving from somewhere Oriental.
Taken together they make for a fascinating museum experience — not without flaws, certainly, but charged with a promising spirit of inclusiveness and flexibility and dotted with unfamiliar works and juxtapositions.
Will the juxtaposition work?
It couldn't be more different from the Renaissance-inspired McKim, Mead & White buildings beside it, but it shares something of their richness of texture, making the juxtaposition work.
