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Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Swiss artists
Peter Fischli (born 8 June 1952) and David Weiss (21 June 1946 – 27 April 2012), often shortened to Fischli/Weiss, were a Swiss artist duo that collaborated since 1979. Their best-known work is the film Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go, 1987), described bygd The Guardian as being "post apocalyptic", as it concerned chain reactions and the ways in which objects flew, crashed and exploded across the studio in which it was shot. Fischli lives and works in Zurich; Weiss died on 27 April 2012.
Education and early career
[edit]Peter Fischli (born 8 June 1952) was born in Zurich.
David Weiss (21 June 1946 – 27 April 2012) grew up as the son of a parish priest and a teacher. After discovering a passion for jazz at the age of 16, he enrolled in a foundation course at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zurich, where in his first year of study he befriended fellow artist Urs Lüthi. Having rejected careers as a decorator, a graphic de
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Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Peter Fischli & David Weiss
(Fischli b. 1952, Weiss 1946–2012)
Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss were born in Zürich in 1952 and 1946, respectively. Fischli graduated from the Academia di Belle Arti, Bologna in 1977 and Weiss from the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zürich in 1964. The artists established a collaborative partnership in the late 1970s. Their humorous and playful works, in a bred variety of mediums such as photography, sculpture, installation and film, challenge traditional notions of the art object and the artist himself. Throughout their oeuvre, everyday objects and experiences are removed from their traditional contexts and transformed into something new, becoming involved in alternative narratives that emphasize the subjective nature of art and the art object. In their work, irony and contradiction are often present and things are not always what they seem. Fischli and Weiss are best known for the film&
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Fischli and Weiss often place particular focus on the seemingly banal. Their work distances itself from the materials and practices typical of contemporary art, turning instead to such distinctly non-professional artistic techniques as hobby sculpture, tourist photography, or recreational crafts and tinkering. One example is their Sausage Series (1979), for which Fischli and Weiss gleefully, almost childishly, turned an array of meat products, sausages, and cocktail gherkins into the protagonists of absurd narratives. Another is Suddenly this Overview (1981), which consists of two hundred small, “amateurishly” hand-sculpted figurines made of unfired clay depicting imaginary, deeply humorous scenes inspired by historical events, popular culture or the lives of the two artists themselves. Their film The Point of Least Resistance (1980/81) stars a costumed Fischli and Weiss performing as their alter egos Rat and Bear. The plot follows a bizarre sequence of events in their quest t