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Peter Fischli David Weiss - Nancy Spector, Nat Trotman

Peter Fischli David Weiss

How to Work Better
Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2016
Prestel UK (Verlag)
978-3-7913-5502-3 (ISBN)
CHF 106,95 inkl. MwSt
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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.
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' 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.

NANCY SPECTOR is Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

"[T]he book [is] an apt primer to the artists' 30-plus year partnership. It is spot on in its generic feel-with only a laconic, ten-step instructional missive titled "How to Work Better" (cribbed from a Thai ceramics factory) on its dull white cover. The text is a fitting pastiche of visuals and words from scholars, critics, friends, gallerists, and the artists themselves."

—CHOICE

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo w. 740 col. ill.
Verlagsort Munich
Sprache englisch
Maße 215 x 263 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
Schlagworte Fischli, Peter • Weiss, David
ISBN-10 3-7913-5502-3 / 3791355023
ISBN-13 978-3-7913-5502-3 / 9783791355023
Zustand Neuware
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