Peter Fischli & David Weiss – Ordnung und Reinlichkeit

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Peter Fischli & David Weiss – Ordnung und ReinlichkeitPeter Fischli (1952) and David Weiss (19462012) began their 33 year collaboration in 1979. Resisting any specific style, medium, or material, their work explores the poetics of banality the sublimity of the objects and events constituting everyday life. Indebted to Dada, Surrealism, Pop Art, and Conceptual Art, their photographs, videos, slide projections, films, books, sculptures, and multimedia installations rely on keen observation and uncanny wit.

The artists involved have a particular interest in those images that feed into social media in a political context

Its audience may be its author or others

Iris van Herpen talked about fashion as a form of art

A selection of collages and ink drawings from the large group of works titled MIKROUNIVERSUM (2005-2011) is presented in a relatively chronological order as a “guiding series” through the collected works

For the most part elderly farmers and craftsmen would tell him in detail about the exercises and tests of strength and courage with which they had tried to prove their virility in their younger days

range from unusual cancerous growths to observations of animals and signatures of multinational corporations

the lust for life and the transience of youth

14 November 2015

people of all nationalities and creeds would live together in peace

but does not give a fig for us

MacDonald offers a contemplative and ever-so slightly incongruous vantage on the world as we thought we knew it

Reese Williams

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