Peter Fischli, David Weiss / Peter Fischli David Weiss
FISCHLI Peter (Zürich 1952), WEISS David (Zürich 1946 - 2012)
Venice - Zürich, Arts Council of Switzerland, 1988, 29,7x21 cm., softcover [stapled], pp. [12], artist's book / catalog with various black and white illustrations. An essay by Patrick Frey translated in German English and Italian (The Art of Gentle Repulsion. On the Rubberiness of Peter Fischli and David Weiss's New Works).
FISCHLI Peter (Zürich 1952), WEISS David (Zürich 1946 - 2012)
Venice - Zürich, Arts Council of Switzerland, 1988, 29,7x21 cm., softcover [stapled], pp. [12], artist's book / catalog with various black and white illustrations. An essay by Patrick Frey translated in German English and Italian (The Art of Gentle Repulsion. On the Rubberiness of Peter Fischli and David Weiss's New Works).
FISCHLI Peter (Zürich 1952), WEISS David (Zürich 1946 - 2012)
Venice - Zürich, Arts Council of Switzerland, 1988, 29,7x21 cm., softcover [stapled], pp. [12], artist's book / catalog with various black and white illustrations. An essay by Patrick Frey translated in German English and Italian (The Art of Gentle Repulsion. On the Rubberiness of Peter Fischli and David Weiss's New Works).
"These rubber sculptures transport Fischli/Weiss's strategies with respect to right/ wrong suitability of material, as we know them from the Wurstserie (Sausage series) and Plötzlich diese Übersicht (Suddenly Such Organization), into an elastic dimension. There is, after all, nothing absurd about the rubber cast of a stuffed crow; it is still black, and so it is still, as one might say, a black sheep and more - clever, thieving and capable of speech, an animal of nocturnal wisdom, witches' com-panion, whose hoarse call is like a primeval cry... But what is the rubber crow in the context of the ensemble?"
