FISCHLI Peter (Zürich 1952) - WEISS David (Zürich 1946 - 2012)
Zürich / Valencia, Edition Patrick Frey / IVAM Col.lecciò Centre del Carme, 1990, 42,5 × 30,3 cm, hardcover, pp. [88], first edition of this important artist’s book by Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Through 40 apparently conventional photographs of aircraft, ground machinery, and empty runways, Airports examines these anonymous global spaces where the promise of travel and exotic destinations gives way to distance, repetition, and indifference. Gray paper-covered boards with title printed in blue; no dust jacket as issued. Perfect condition.
"Airports by Peter Fischli and David Weiss is an artist’s book on those perpetually modern and exceptionally popular places where both the tourist nature of our understanding of the world and our insatiable hunger for ‘the world’ are perhaps most saliently visible. Airports are 40 seemingly conventional views of the heavy, inert metallic bodies of airplanes, of the machinery on the ground. But mostly we see the space around them, the vastness and emptiness of the runway, which becomes the essence of the place itself. A book about a global place where foreign places remain a mere promise, and wanderlust turns to indifference as distance’s reality is just a flashy exotic name, just another destination." from the publisher's website
FISCHLI Peter (Zürich 1952) - WEISS David (Zürich 1946 - 2012)
Zürich / Valencia, Edition Patrick Frey / IVAM Col.lecciò Centre del Carme, 1990, 42,5 × 30,3 cm, hardcover, pp. [88], first edition of this important artist’s book by Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Through 40 apparently conventional photographs of aircraft, ground machinery, and empty runways, Airports examines these anonymous global spaces where the promise of travel and exotic destinations gives way to distance, repetition, and indifference. Gray paper-covered boards with title printed in blue; no dust jacket as issued. Perfect condition.
"Airports by Peter Fischli and David Weiss is an artist’s book on those perpetually modern and exceptionally popular places where both the tourist nature of our understanding of the world and our insatiable hunger for ‘the world’ are perhaps most saliently visible. Airports are 40 seemingly conventional views of the heavy, inert metallic bodies of airplanes, of the machinery on the ground. But mostly we see the space around them, the vastness and emptiness of the runway, which becomes the essence of the place itself. A book about a global place where foreign places remain a mere promise, and wanderlust turns to indifference as distance’s reality is just a flashy exotic name, just another destination." from the publisher's website
