Contributions

  • Fischli & Weiss - Contributor
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - Contributor
  • Museo Jumex - Contributor
  • Laurenz-Stiftung - Contributor

Publication

2016 - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, DelMonico Books, Prestel Publishing, Ciudad de México, México, New York (State)

Language

Spanish

Word Count

94,750 words, Guess

Page Count

379 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC700.92
  • LCCN7153.F53 A4 2016

Alternate Titles

  • How to work better
  • Peter Fischli and David Weiss
  • Fischli and Weiss

Description

Throughout the course of their collaboration, Peter Fischli and David Weiss celebrated the sheer triviality of everyday existence, observing the world with bemused detachment. As this book shows, their often humorous work offers a sustained reflection on the intertwined strands of leisure, productivity and playful absurdity that shape our lives. With its deliberately mundane subject matter and quotidian source material, their work explores the poetics of banality in a wide range of mediums, including photography, videos, slide projections, films, books, sculptures and multimedia installations. This retrospective volume features an in-depth, illustrated survey of the artists' long history of collaboration, from the early Sausage Series (1979)-staged vignettes created in miniature using deli meats and various household items-to their last work, the large-scale public installation Rock on Top of Another Rock (2010-13), augmented by archival images, notes on process and interview excerpts culled from the artists' Zurich-based archives. A series of probing essays on their practice and thematic concerns rounds out this definitive account of Fischli and Weiss's vital contribution to contemporary art. Exhibition: Solomon R. Gugenheim Museum, New York, USA (05.02-20.04.2016).

Subjects

Topics

700.92ExhibitionsFischli & WeissN7153.f53 a4 2016Fischli, peter , 1952-Weiss, david , 1946-2012

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