PRESS RELEASE COURTESY SPRUETH MAGERS
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present new works by Peter Fischli and David Weiss in London. The solo exhibition consists of sculptures created between 2010 and 2012 and are connected to the group of works in unfired clay which the artists displayed at the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011.
In the current exhibition, Fischli and Weiss continue their ongoing observations of the unspectacular, everyday world with objects of unfired clay and black rubber. Their oeuvre consists of sculptures, photographs, films and videos, materials they have been working with since the early 1980s. For example, in the Rubber Sculptures (since 1986), the artists create true-to-life, rubber casts of natural objects and typical items of everyday use, while in the series Plötzlich diese Übersicht ("Suddenly This Overview," 1981) they imaginatively re-enact a revised history of humanity through several hundred sculptures of unfired clay. READ MORECT EDIT
The Point of Least Resistance, 1981 (duration, 3:29)
The Way Things Go, 1987 (duration 3:13)
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BOOK
Afterall's book, Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go, Jeremy Millar