Paying tribute to an artistic partnership of
more than 30 years, this richly illustrated
book explores Peter Fischli and David Weiss's
acclaimed and influential body of work, known
for its sly humor and profound meditations on
the everyday. 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.
Paying tribute to an artistic partnership of
more than 30 years, this richly illustrated
book explores Peter Fischli and David Weiss's
acclaimed and influential body of work, known
for its sly humor and profound meditations on
the everyday. 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
(2009-present), augmented by documentary images, notes on
process, and interview excerpts culled from the artists' Zurichbased
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.
