Ordnung Und Reinlichkeit

Nieves

Ordnung und ReinlichkeitFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Nieves, Switzerland\nImprint: Nieves\nISBN-13: 9783905999716, 978-3905999716\nSynopsis\nPeter Fischli [tel] and David Weiss [tel] 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. Throughout the course of their partnership, Fischli and Weiss probed the idea of dualistic thinking. Perhaps because they were a team of two involved in constant dialogue and debate, they consistently interrogated Western cultures reliance on contraries. \n\nThe artists embodied this approach in their alter egos, Rat and Bear, who, for all their differences (rats being ugly and ubiquitous while pand.