Alpha Wax

*Swiss artist Urs Fischer set up an unusual installation at the 54th International Art Exhibition of the 2011 Venice Biennale. This work of art, which the artist has called “Illuminations”, represents a life-size man looking at an exact replica of a statue of the 16th-century sculptor Giambologna. Both the man and the statue are true to life and have been fashioned as burning candles of paraffin wax. As the wax melts, the man and his surroundings will slowly disappear during the six months of the Biennale. *