Tag: Peter Fischli

Peter Fischli and David Weiss – Should I Paint a Pirate Ship On My Car With an Armed Figure On It Holding a Decapitated Head By the Hair?

Three works from the duo’s career point up their concern with commonplace objects and the melancholy humour of their art
Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better

The Swiss duo play with viewers’ habits and expectations, but they demand to be taken seriously at this game
David Weiss: Works, 1968-1979

This exhibition of Swiss artist David Weiss looks at the years before he and Peter Fischli became a famous duo. A sense of childish whimsy pervades these formative works, done when he was immersed in Zurich’s bohemian counterculture
The Hunter and the Factory

The Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico’s largest private contemporary art collection with more than 2,600 works, is presenting The Hunter and the Factory, an exhibition highlighting the impact of urban development on the natural environment. The selection of work by artists such…
Rock on Top of Another Rock

Placing one rock on top of another is a seemingly simple gesture, and, as the Swiss artistic duo, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, themselves said, an archaic means of man making his mark