Peter fischli david weiss biography of michael
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Non classé, ThingsConsumer Goods, Imitation, ready-made, Replica1
Since the early days of the 1990’s, Peter Fischli and David Weiss have replicated ordinary household items using an expanding polyurethane foam, robbing this material world of its very materiality. What remains, then, of these useless objects? What meaning can we find in this flattening of reality, and why did these artists choose objects already used and consumed? Ileana Parvu studies their work as signs to be deciphered.
Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
The value of things. The objects of Peter Fischli and David Weiss Ileana Parvu
When, at the beginning of the 1990’s, Zurich born artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss started replicating household items, they turned to a material made mostly of air. Their work with expanding polyurethane foam is therefore akin to shaping voids. This replicating endeavor seems to completely deny objects their materiality. ‘We took everything from them’,1 would reiterate
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss
This gorgeously curated overview-cum-retrospective of the polymorphously parodic work of Peter Fischli and David Weiss further benefits from the compelling amalgam of sophistication and bucolic splendor that is Glenstone—the private museum just outside Washington, DC, that houses the collection of Mitchell and Emily Wei Rales. Carefully grouped into several galleries connected to a central pavilion, the exhibition (curated bygd Emily Rales in collaboration with Fischli himself) consists solely of pieces from Glenstone’s collection and will remain on view through February 2015. The Swiss duo’s first US survey since the 1990s and the first major institutional exhibition of their work since the passing of Weiss gods year, this show provides a welcome opportunity to reconsider through-lines in Fischli & Weiss ’s production.
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Peter Fischli David Weiss (2013)
Foreword by Emily Wei Rales, Mitchell P. Rales. Text by Mark Godfrey, Boris Groys. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Brian O’Doherty.
Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012) collaborate to transform the stuff of ordinary life into a series of quizzical, whimsical, even disquieting encounters. Fascinated with unconventional subject matter and material, Fischli and Weiss toy with the idea of “high art,” questioning popular narratives and movements in art and cultural history. Peter Fischli David Weiss presents an in-depth survey of the artists’ work from 1979 through 2012, drawn exclusively from Glenstone’s collection. The volume includes rubber and clay sculptures; photographic series including Equilibres (A Quiet Afternoon), 1984–1986, and Sausage Series, 1979; digital slides such as Views of Airports, 1987–2012, and Flowers and Mushrooms, 1997–2006; stills from their acclaimed vide