Mark Fisher – Too Much is Never Enough

Mark Fish­er was the cre­ator and design­er of a new art form: the trav­el­ling rock show. His exu­ber­ant stage sets framed artists from The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, U2, Madon­na, Lady Gaga and Jean-Michel Jarre to Elton John and Tina Turn­er. There were thou­sands of con­certs and hun­dreds of bravu­ra set­tings, from the 2000 Lon­don Mil­len­ni­um show to the 2008 Bei­jing Olympic Games, as well as per­ma­nent struc­tures, such as the 2,000-seater the­atre and stage machin­ery for KÀ by Cirque du Soleil, in Las Vegas, and the Dai Show The­atre, in Chi­na. Each of these projects first found expres­sion in Fisher’s sketch­books and on his draw­ing board. This book spans his entire career, with details of every major project and more than 100 draw­ings – some of which are per­for­mances in their own right.

‘In 1977, I went on the road with the Floyd, and that was real­ly the moment I ran away and joined the cir­cus.’ – Mark Fisher

With con­tri­bu­tions from those who knew Mark Fish­er well: Cristi­na Gar­cia, his life part­ner, keep­er of the archive and the edi­tor of this book; Piers Gough, his con­tem­po­rary at the Archi­tec­tur­al Asso­ci­a­tion; Andrew Holmes, an artist, occa­sion­al col­lab­o­ra­tor and close friend; and Ray Win­kler, a col­league of long stand­ing and now Design Direc­tor of Stu­fish Enter­tain­ment Architects.