Fischli and Weiss Hannah, Clem, Gabriella, Lucy and Lalita Main - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Fischli and Weiss Hannah, Clem, Gabriella, Lucy and Lalita Main information on the artists *Peter Fischli (born in 1952) *David Weiss (born in 1946) - Started in the late 1970s and worked with a wide range of media including sculpture,
Hannah, Clem, Gabriella, Lucy and Lalita
*Peter Fischli (born in 1952) *David Weiss (born in 1946)
media including sculpture, installation, moving image and photography.
play off each other and collide in unexpected ways that are
Materials, composition and colours * Two chairs balanced on top
glass bottle and a pot * Worn, recycled * Mundane and bland, colours, something you’d come across really regularly *Interesting use of shadow through the gaps of the chairs
“These two astute observers collect objects and impressions, which they then transform in their work in order to present an altered view of reality. “
From a book by Fischli and Weiss Flowers and Questions: A retrospective
Is this a surrealist piece?
Is this piece: Photo-shopped?
in that specific position.
Reinforced by an invisible material?
Something real made to look unreal?
“A number of the sculptures give physical form to contrary states, but blur the distinction between them in the process, suggesting that difference is not innate, but lies, rather, in perception.” p. 126
Outlaws - could refer to the way in which the sculpture defies the laws of gravity - it is an ‘outlaw’ in the sense that it is going against the rules. Social implications? Is this a commentary of everyday household life?
household but that’s what makes it a home to people in various ways.
Another piece from their series “A Quiet Afternoon” - when these objects collapse it won’t be quiet. Perfectly balanced – kitchen items.
This piece uses the camera’s ability to elasticate time, presenting a split-second of the sculpture. This creates a sense of preservation even though the photograph foretells what happens (crashing down of objects).
One and three chairs, 1965
M.C Escher?
he created vanishing points as an equilateral triangle
Relativity, 1953
Bert Loeschner?
given human personas The dudes
Joseph Kosuth?
image of a chair, definition of a chair.
main purpose?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXrRC3pfLnE&t=74s
balance in Equilibre/Quiet Afternoon suggests a different alignment: one which counters a Baudrillardian resignation at both the omnipotence
subsequent ambivalence that results from the asymmetry of his diagnosed ‘impossible exchange barrier’
Flowers and Questions - A Retrospective. 2nd ed. Edited by Bice
5).” Art History 36, no. 3 (May 16, 2013): 626–39. doi:10.1111/1467- 8365.12020.