"Swiss duo Fischli & Weiss have been collaborating since 1979 on clever, charming works that turn everyday detritus--from stuffed animals and beer bottles to sausages and magazine advertisements--into witty scenarios of balance, collapse and blissful silliness. Their best-known work remains their film "The Way Things Go," in which such items are arranged in a domino sequence to fall, catch fire and roll along, with dizzying hilarity. All ..."
"Since it was first published in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas has become a classic in the theory of architecture, and one of the most influential architectural texts of the twentieth century. The treatise by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour enjoys a reputation as a signal work of postmodernism in architecture and urban planning. However, despite of the book’s prestige, none of the editions have ever featured high-q ..."
""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 rev ..."
"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 illustratio ..."
"Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en el Palacio de Cristal de Madrid, abril-agosto 2009. Presenta la obra de los dos artistas suizos que trabajan juntos desde 1979. Su colaboración abarca los ámbitos del cine, la fotografía, la escultura y las instalaciones multimedia."
"This little gem is the fourth edition of the catalogue to "Suddenly This Overview," the influential Fischli & Weiss exhibition of unfired clay objects which took place in December and January of 1981 and 82. That exhibition represented the first major collaboration between the artists, who have since become two of the most influential figures on the international scene. In this pocket-sized volume, the small, very hand-made-looking clay ..."
"Broschiertes BuchDieses Künstlerbuch des international renommierten Schweizer Duos Fischli / Weiss ist Fragen gewidmet, die sich jeder ab und zu stellt: Ist das Leben ein seltsames Höhlensystem? , Gibt es zuviel des Guten? oder Driftet alles auseinander? , Wie wirke ich? , Soll ich untertauchen? oder Bin ich ein Sonderling? , Was denkt mein Hund? , Woist mein Bett? oder Spürt sie es? . Es sind keine Wissensfragen, sondern Fragen, die un ..."
"Since the late 1970s, the Swiss conceptualists Fischli & Weiss have worked collaboratively to produce surprising, witty and oftentimes devious works in a range of media including sculpture, film, photography and installation. This comprehensive black-and-white index of the artists' work from the 1970s till 2003, with text in German only, contains a complete exhibition history, bibliography and filmography. It is an invaluable resource, ..."
"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 ..."
"Catálogo de la exposición celebrada en el Palacio de Cristal de Madrid, abril-agosto 2009. Presenta la obra de los dos artistas suizos que trabajan juntos desde 1979. Su colaboración abarca los ámbitos del cine, la fotografía, la escultura y las instalaciones multimedia."
"Catalogue to the first exhibition of the Swiss duo Fischli & Weiss in Japan held at the 21st Century Museum in Kanazawa. This publication gives an overview of the complete carreer of the artists, including their videos, photographs and installations. With essays by Stefan Zweifel, Chieko Kitade and Patrick Frey."
"Ever since Freud's Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious appeared in 1905, humor both light and dark has frequently surfaced as a subversive, troubling, or liberating element in art. The Artist's Joke surveys the rich and diverse uses of humor by avant-garde and contemporary artists. The texts collected in this new reader from London's Whitechapel Gallery examine what ..."