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Peter Fischli & David Weiss: Sonne, Mond und Sterne»rank: 574361by: Peter Fischli
: :Sonne, Mond und Sterne is an 800-page artist's book consisting of just as many images, inspired by an international selection of magazine advertisements and compiled and organized into loose categories by the influential Swiss artistic collaborators Fischli & Weiss. Designed in collaboration with the rising Zurich design firm NORM, this volume reconfigures Fischli & Weiss' contribution to the Ringier AG Annual Report 2007. It is a revealing--and perhaps unnerving--look at the images and slogans that constitute our glutted contemporary media landscape. The viewer is plunged into a flood of imagery that, when taken out of its original commercial context, unfolds into unlikely open-ended narratives. Based in Zurich, Fischli & Weiss began collaborating ... |
Peter Fischli & David Weiss: Equilibres»rank: 594377from: Walther Konig
: :The Swiss collaborators Fischli & Weiss have said of this early series of color and black-and-white photographs, 'Balance is most beautiful just shortly before it collapses.' Indeed their tense arrangements of household miscellany often look on the verge of falling, or are caught in the process. The only texts included with them are associative titles, including Natural Grace, (a spatula on a plate on a wine bottle on an apple on a cup), The Fart (chairs on Coke bottles and aerosol cans), and Invisible Power, (showing one end of a paper construction held aloft by the breeze from a small fan). Many of the constructions appear under several titles, in several styles: ... |
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Universal Experience: Art, Life, And The Tourist'S Eye»rank: 826221by: Carol Becker, Alain de Boton, Robert Fitzpatrick, Martin Parr, Lucy Lippard, Susan Sontag, Peter Fischli, Emilia Kabakov, David Weiss, Matthew Buckingham, Katherina Fritsch, Aleksandra Mir, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Chris Burden, Ilya Kabakov, Jeff Koons, Gabriel Orozco, Simon Starling, Rirkrit Tiravanija
: :Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism, and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of contemporary travel and tourism. This volume draws on the proliferation of research surrounding the social, geographic, and cultural dimensions of mobility and outputs this information as an anthology of articles, essays, and excerpts. The primary focus of the exhibition, however, is on artworks created by a group of international visual artists who create work in response to travel among multiple cultures--both high and low, and local and foreign. While serving as a 'travel guide' to the latest ... |
Fragen and Blumen»rank: 826221by: Peter Fischli, David Weiss
: :Since 1979, Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been cheerfully celebrating the banality of everyday existence and, in the process, rising to the forefront of the contemporary international art world. Their work deliberately ignores the traditional distinction between high and low art, and employs a wide variety of media, including photography, film, video, artists’ books, installation, and sculpture. Featuring over 200 color illustrations arranged in spreads designed by the artists, Flowers & Questions is the most thorough survey to date of one of the most fascinating and varied careers in contemporary art. The book includes contributions from a wide range of writers, critics, artists, and filmmakers, including leading art critic Arthur C. ... |
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Parkett: 20 Years Of Artists' Collaborations»rank: 773414by: Christoph Becker, Harald Szeemann, Dieter von Graffenried, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Doug Aitken, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Roni Horn, Gerhard Richter, Laurie Anderson, Gilbert & George
: :A rare, behind-the-scenes look at one of the art world's most respected magazine, Parkett: 20 Years of Artists' Collaborations portrays and explores the 20 years of Parkett since 1984. Focused particularly on the making of the journals' signature artists' collaborations and editions, this book features unpublished artist interviews, statements, and other background information. Included as well are artists' documents on the making of Parkett editions with some 30 full-page color drawings and comments by artists Doug Aitken, Laurie Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio Cattelan, Gilbert & George, Roni Horn, Cindy Sherman, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Wall, and others. Parkett co-founders Bice Curiger, Jacqueline Burckhardt, and Dieter von Graffenried, provide insightful interviews which are interspersed ... |
XL-Photography: Art Collection Neue Borse»rank: 1006425by: Jean-Christophe Ammann, Nobuyoshi Araki, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, Jorg Sasse, Gunther Forg, Andreas Gursky, Axel Hutte, Bernhard, Jone Elissa Scherf, Gunter Lorenz, Dirk Snauwaert
: :Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Gnter Farg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hafer, Axel Htte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jarg Sasse, XL-Photography presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. XL-Photography presents close to 200 large-format works by the 14 aforementioned photographers, with pieces that range from the ironic pictorial narratives of Anna and Bernhard Blume to Htte's landscape images; from Candida Hafer's interior shots to Araki's provocative erotic stagings; from Ruff's deconstructions of subjectivity to Streuli's urban views. ... |
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An Aside: Works Selected By Tacita Dean»rank: 1092790by: Tacita Dean, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Joseph Beuys, Isa Genzken, Rodney Graham, Roni Horn, Sharon Lockhart, Marisa Merz, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schutte, Kurt Schwitters
: :This beautiful artist's book accompanies the Hayward Gallery travelling exhibition curated by artist and filmmaker Tacita Dean. Dean approached the task of selecting the works for this exhibition and this book as she does the making of her own work: with intuition as a guide, and a certain openness to coincidences and emerging themes. Texts by Tacita Dean. Afterword by Roger Malbert. Paperback, 7.75 x 9.5 in./80 pgs / 40 color. |
Peter Fischli & David Weiss: Will Happiness Find Me?»rank: 966055by: Peter Fischli, David Weiss
: :An artist's book by the renowned Swiss duo dedicated to the questions that everyone asks themselves once in a while: Can something be unbelievable? Should I get drunk? Could I be Japanese? Is the freedom of birds overrated? Am I a farmer in winter? Does unease grow by itself? Should I crawl into my bed and stop producing things all the time? |
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The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982»rank: 166030by: Giovanni Anselmo, Stefan Gronnert, Pamela Lee, Geoffrey Batchen, Richard Flood, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Mel Bochner, Sarah Charlesworth, Jan Dibbets, Valie Export, Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, Douglas Fogle, Kathy Halbreich
: :Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s in the work of artists such as Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman, to its rise to art-world prominence in the work of the artists of the late 70s and early 80s including Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman. ... |
Ahead Of The 21St Century»rank: 1196063by: Peter Fischli, David Weiss, John Armleder, George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Sylvie Fleury, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Ugo Rondinone, David Salle, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West
: :Damien Hirst's Alone Yet Together, a pseudoscientific installation of fish suspended in formaldehyde in small, identical glass boxes, graces the cover of this volume. As the singular image selected to represent the Pisces Collection, it demands some exploration of wordplay. Pisces is, after all, the zoological term for fish and also the name of a zodiac sign--the astrological sign, as it happens, of the collection's anonymous owner. Devoted to contemporary art from the 1980s onward, the Pisces Collection takes not an encyclopedic approach but a focused one, concentrating on representing the work of a relatively small group of artists in depth. For the first time, 150 pieces from this very valuable collection ... |