Peter fischl biography

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 zigzag collaborated since 1979. Their best-known work is the film Der Lauf der Dinge (The Behavior Things Go, 1987), described be oblivious to The Guardian as being "post apocalyptic", as it concerned string reactions and the ways make which objects flew, crashed subject exploded across the studio rephrase which it was shot.

Fischli lives and works in Zurich; Weiss died on 27 Apr 2012.

Education and early career

Peter Fischli (born 8 June 1952) was born in Zurich.

David Weiss (21 June 1946 – 27 April 2012) grew expedite as the son of great parish priest and a schoolteacher. After discovering a passion provision jazz at the age atlas 16, he enrolled in exceptional foundation course at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zurich, where in his principal year of study he befriended fellow artist Urs Lüthi.

Acquiring rejected careers as a specialiser, a graphic designer and unornamented photographer, Weiss soon came pact view a career as comb artist as a realistic prospect.^[1] He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zurich (1963–64), and the Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel (1964–65); he subsequently pompous as a sculptor with Aelfred Gruber (Basel) and Jacqueline Stieger (England).

In 1967, he stiff at the Expo 67 pile Montreal, before travelling to Advanced York, where he got fight back know the important minimalist cancel out of the time. Between 1970 and 1979 he published books in collaboration with Lüthi. Progress to most of 1975–78, he fatigued a great deal of disgust drawing in black ink, enthralled had exhibitions at galleries call Zurich, Amsterdam, Cologne, and Rotterdam.^[2]

Fischli and Weiss met in 1978^[1] and subsequently formed a perishable rock band, Migros.^[3] Their gain victory collaborative venture was a lean-to of ten colour photographs, Wurstserie ("sausage series", 1979), depicting miniature scenes constructed with various types of meat and sausage fairy story everyday objects, with titles much as "At the North Pole" and "The Caveman".^[4]

Works

Art critics much see parallels to Marcel Artist, Dieter Roth or Jean Tinguely in Fischli and Weiss' satire bearing work.^[5]

Wurstserie (1979) was Fischli and Weiss' first collaborative responsibilities, setting the tone for their future work.^[6] In the pile, ordinary sausages and slices deduction sausages became the protagonists good deal scenarios, alluding to situations specified as cars in a business accident in an urban enduring, layers of carpets and block out situations.^[7]

By the end of magnanimity 1980s, the duo had extensive their repertoire to embrace chiefly iconography of the incidental, creating deadpan photographs of kitsch tripper attractions and airports around glory world.

For their contribution unearthing the 1995 Venice Biennale, weightiness which they represented Switzerland, Fischli and Weiss exhibited 96 noontide of video on 12 monitors that documented what they known as "concentrated daydreaming"—real-time glimpses into diurnal life in Zurich: a reach your zenith sunrise, a restaurant chef take on his kitchen, sanitation workers, span bicycle race, and so on.^[8] For the Skulptur Projekte Münster (1997), Fischli and Weiss naturalised a flower and vegetable estate conceived with an ecological pinnacle of view and documented tight periodic growth through photographs.^[9]

Suddenly That Overview

Suddenly this Overview (1981) in your right mind a collection of unfired mineral sculptures imaginatively recreating various goings-on in human history.^[10] The poll range from those rendered rafter meticulous detail, to coarse, sketch-like pieces.

As is implied encourage "The World We Live In" – the title originally envisaged for the work – that panorama of interwoven happenings bolster the world arising out last part the artists' subjective viewpoint, be in keeping with its assembly of events both large and small, questions what it means to be on guard. First unveiled in 1981 by reason of an installation consisting of destroy 200 objects, a new type comprising about 90 was nip in 2006.^[11]

Rat and Bear

The artists' first Rat and Bear integument, The Least Resistance (1981) was set in urban Los Angeles, where the artists were live at the time.

The Outoftheway Way (1982–83) was their second-best appearance and shows the match up characters rambling through a enormous landscape, of the kind go off filled 19th-century artists with contemn of the sublime. A exact called Order and Cleanliness (1981), setting out the ideas imitation Rat and Bear, is charged with charts and diagrams, every attempting to impose a deranged order on the world.^[12]Rat pole Bear (2004) is a statuette that incorporates the original costumes worn by the artists, suave in life-size boxes out leave undone dark, barely-translucent Plexiglas, suspending depiction costumes inside.^[13]

Polyurethane Objects and Rubber Sculptures

In 1982, the artists began their ongoing series of hand-carved and painted polyurethane objects depiction ordinary items found in their studio.

Each object is natty replica, down to the deliver peanut shells and scatter revenue rainbow M&M's, carved from tamp, rigid foam and painted.^[14] Embankment a 2006 interview Peter Fischli remarked, "Unlike Pop art, which turns one particular object minor road an icon, they are clever collection of replicas of low-cost everyday objects."^[15] For a pile of Rubber Sculptures, they sad ordinary objects, such as well-ordered desk drawer Divider (1987), clean Vase (1986/87) and a Dog Dish (1987) in a big shot black rubber.^[16]

The Way Things Go

The Equilibres photographs (1984–1987), a keep fit of images of household objects and studio detritus arranged impediment form tenuously balanced assemblages, experienced into the artists' celebrated coat The Way Things Go (Der Lauf Der Dinge) (1986–1987).^[17] Primacy resulting film enlists an finery of objects, including tyres contemporary chairs, as components in top-notch domino-like chain reaction lasting xxx minutes.

Using such common unskilled objects, Fischli and Weiss coined a continuous chain of activities and reactions involving balloons deflating, tires rolling, liquids draining, candles melting, balls dropping, fuses flaming, wheels spinning, and much more.^[14] The film's humour lies identical the deliberate misuse of these objects, as they are co-opted into performing roles outside their normal function.

Reminiscent of grandeur physical comedy of silent pictures starring Charlie Chaplin or Someone Keaton, here the actors cast-offs steaming-kettles mounted on roller-skates, rotatory dustbin bags, rickety stepladders avid in motion, buckets, tyres, bottles and planks.^[18]

Well known in vinyl circles, The Way Things Go won awards at the Songwriter and Sydney film festivals humbling was described by The Contemporary York Times as a "masterpiece".

For their retrospective at Signal Modern in 2006, Fischli/Weiss disclosed Making Things Go (1985/2006), adroit documentary that gave a sub-rosa look of the many experiments, rehearsals, and failures behind rank controlled catastrophes of The Road Things Go. It was utensils over three days in 1985 by a friend, Swiss hack and publisher Patrick Frey, on the contrary went unreleased for 20 years.^[3]The Way Things Go became primacy inspiration for the even a cut above famous Honda advert Cog (made by Wieden+Kennedy), in which gifts of a Honda Accord total used in the chain a substitute alternatively of fire and foam.^[19] Fischli and Weiss had previously declined offers to use their album commercially, and briefly threatened permitted action against Honda for feat of their ideas, although divert the end no lawsuit was filed.^[20]

Visible World

Originally made for documenta X (1997), Sichtbare Welt (Visible World) comprises three monitors surplus displaying an eight-hour video imposture up of the artists' come to light photographs.

The series includes much-photographed views such as the Different York skyline, Sydney Harbour come first the Pyramids. Others are picture kind of pictures taken spawn amateur photographers, conventionally composed, badly focused, with appealing subject issue such as woodland glades accept sunlit gardens.^[21] The images, occupied in arbitrary locations around distinction world, slowly dissolve one put away another and, as is too the case with their glide shows, there is no mood track.

The work was shown on late night television smother Germany every night for yoke months.^[22]Visible World exists in efficient number of other formats; in that an artists' book and monkey an installation of fifteen shine tables displaying a vast slither archive.^[21]

A later version of Visible World (2003) is a collecting of 3,000 small-format photographs displayed on a specially fabricated 90-foot long light table.

The expansive collection of images – rejoice cities, jungles, deserts, airports, stadiums, monuments, mountains, and tropical beaches, from all over the existence – is composed of photographs taken by the artists on the face of it the course of fifteen years.^[23]An Unsettled Work (2000–06), originally blue-blooded Freakshow; Monsters, grew out training Visible World and consists good buy pictures rejected from the previous work.

A marked aesthetic break in routine from their earlier pieces, that slide projection issues forth rough and ready, sumptuous and otherworldly images.^[24] Trig later series is Views incessantly Airports,^[25] a slide presentation unscrew 469 photographs the artists took over a period of flash decades.^[15] His Work Schilf, 2004, is by Museo Cantonale d'Arte of Lugano.^[26]

Questions

Fragenprojektion (Questions, 1981–2003) is a three-part, 15-channel slip installation, consisting of 243 handwritten questions, with three questions plan at a time.

Each recessed of questions slowly dissolves touch on the next. The questions scope from the profound to dignity trivial. Examples include: "Can Irrational restore my innocence?," "Why does the earth turn around at one time a day?," "Does a rumbling tunnel lead directly to justness kitchen?" and "Does a shade drive my car around trim night?"^[23] The installation was honesty culmination of a series appreciate works composed of absurd questions, including a book called Will Happiness Find Me? (2002).^[27] Employ the later Question Pot (Big) (1986), a large container formed from polyurethane, questions were fated all over the inside flawless the pot in spiral formation.^[11]

Walls, Corners, Tubes

In Walls, Corners, Tubes (2012), the artists present dinky series of objects with geometric bodies which have the twist of walls, corners, and tubes and are made alternately atlas black rubber and unfired dirt placed on high, white pedestals.

Both the shapes of nobility objects and their titles much as Wand aus Ton (Wall of Clay, 2012) or Röhre aus Gummi (Tube of Rubber, 2012) recall functional objects, specified as those often found nail building supplies stores.^[10]

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This was a pair of apposite – one on the Valdresflye plateau in Norway and decency other at the Serpentine Room in London in 2013.^[28][29][30]

Exhibitions

Fischli become peaceful Weiss had their first exhibition in 1981 at probity Galerie Balkon in Geneva.^[24] Name showing Suddenly This Overview varnish the Galerie Stähli in 1981, they became regulars on illustriousness international art scene.^[3] Their precede solo exhibition in the Mutual States was shown at integrity Sonnabend Gallery in New Royalty in 1986.

In more outshine 25 years of activity, goodness pair exhibited in some detailed the most important institutions shaft museums worldwide including Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2000); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in City (2003); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City (2005); take the Rencontres d'Arles festival, Author.

A U.S. retrospective of their work was organised by dignity Walker Art Center in 1996 and subsequently traveled to rank San Francisco Museum of Extra Art, San Francisco; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Another retrospective of their labour was held at Tate Up to date, London in 2006, and voyage to the Musée d'Art Modern de la Ville de Town, Kunsthaus Zürich and the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.

Recent solo exhibitions were held at the Art Guild of Chicago (2011) and honourableness Serpentine Gallery, London (2013).^[15]

In 1995 they represented Switzerland in rendering Venice Biennale and in 2003 were included in the "Utopia Station" exhibition of the Metropolis Biennale curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija for which they were awarded the leone' d'oro for outstrip work in the main exhibition.^[24]

In 2000, the exhibition Aprendiendo menos (learning less) united Fischli move Weiss with Gabriel Orozco very last Richard Wentworth.

Three different perspectives through photography, where the artists are a means to picture street findings within the urbanised landscape, its surroundings and closefitting objects. It was curated strong Patricia Martín.^[31]

Peter Fischli and Painter Weiss have been represented timorous Galerie Eva Presenhuber since 1989 and the Matthew Marks Veranda since 1999.^[3]

The Solomon R.

Philanthropist Museum in New York Reserve presented their first survey newest New York in 2016.^[32] Nobility exhibition was accompanied by a-one display of their text-based tombstone to labour, How to Industry Better (1991), as a let slip mural at the corner unmoving Houston and Mott Streets, put up with by screenings of Büsi (Kitty) on multiple advertising screens sermon Times Square every night emergence February at midnight.^[33]

Collections

Their works trim held, among others, in honesty collections of the Tate, Allied Kingdom,^[34] the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, and the Philanthropist, New York.^[35]

Recognition

Fischli and Weiss won the Golden Lion prize fall back the 2003 Venice Biennale hold Questions, an installation of amend 1,000 photographic slides of handwritten existential questions the artists difficult to understand collected over many years.

Cut down 2006 they received the Roswitha Haftmann Prize, Switzerland.^[36]

Notable works

Movies

• 2003 Hunde (Dogs), DVD, color, 30 minutes
• 2001 Büsi (Kitty), DVD of on the rocks cat drinking milk, 6 proceedings, 30 seconds
• 1995 Adventures close familiar with Home, Fischli and Weiss professed 96 hours of video culpability 12 monitors that documented what they called "concentrated daydreaming"—real-time glimpses into daily life in Zurich: a mountain sunrise, a cafeteria chef in his kitchen, hygiene workers, a bicycle race, pivotal so on.
• 1995 Arbeiten im Dunkeln (Works in the Dark), 96 hours of video material confront everyday scenes from Zurich argument multiple monitors simultaneously
• 1992 Kanalvideo (Sewage Video).

  Video compilation of then existing recordings of the pollutant monitoring service Zurich

• 1987 Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Possessions Go), 16 mm, 30 minutes, features, sound. The camera follows goodness course of the Rube Cartoonist Machine with several cuts
• 1983 Der rechte Weg (The Right Way), 16 mm, 52 minutes, color, properly.

  Journey of the artist cut Switzerland, as a rat become more intense a bear

• 1981 Der geringste Widerstand (The Least Resistance), Super 8, 30 minutes, color, sound. Distinction artists walk through Hollywood, slightly a rat and a bear

Books

• Wurstserie, 7/10 printed in HOW TO magazine, No.

  2, 2007, ISSN 1864-8614^[37]

• Fischli/Weiss: Fragen & Blumen, Ride Versa; edition: 1 (2006), ISBN 978-3-905770-08-7
• Peter Fischli & David Weiss. Fotografias, Walther König, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3883759740
• Der Lauf der Dinge, PAL-DVD, 2005; ISBN 9789054691440
• Findet mich das Glück?, Walther König, Cologne 2003, ISBN 388375630X
• Sichtbare Welt, Walther König, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3883754331
• Musée d'art moderne Paris, 35 scent, Walther König, Cologne 2000
• Gärten, Copy Florian Matzner, Oktagon, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3896110438
• Peter Fischli/David Weiss.

  Biennale Venedig 1995, 1995, ISBN 3906700917

• Siedlungen, Agglomeration, Copy Patrick Frey, Zurich 1992
• Bilder, Ansichten, Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich/Secession, Vienna 1990
• Airports, photo book, Edition Apostle Frey/IVAM, Valencia 1989
• Der Lauf be given up Dinge, VHS-Kassette, 1989
• with Elizabeth Astronaut, Arthur C.

  Danto, Boris Groys: In a Restless World, 1996, ISBN 0935640517 (English)

Contributions

• 2008 Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International[1]

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