Peter Fischli, David Weiss

Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 192 PP

Hatje Cantz | 2010 | 9783775727358

Text in English and German

Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss started working as a duo in 1979, availing themselves of a wide range of artistic forms of expression. This publication features the artists’ sculptures, installations, photographs, and films across twenty-five years.

Along with the seemingly trivial, fundamental questions about human existence inspire their ironic, clever works. Their path seemed to be laid out for them as early as 1980, when they produced their first collaborative piece, the photo cycle Wurstserie (Sausage Series). Whole and sliced sausages became protagonists in adventurous settings that would make great material for a film. In their installation Fragenprojektion (Question Projection) (1981–2002), they confront the viewer with poetic everyday questions, such as “Will happiness find me?”