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Peter Fischli and David Weiss are consummate innovators. They have moved from medium to medium, deconstructing and rearranging materials and subject matter to create a body of work that is utterly unique. Since the early 1980s, Fischli and Weiss have quietly revolutionized sculpture, video, and photography. Their aesthetic is dedicated to exploring the common-place and, in that exploration, finding the humor, the beauty, the fragility, and the human.
In 1988, Fischli and Weiss began working on an ongoing series of airport photographs. At first glance, the images appear commonplace, almost like tourist photographs. However as critic Robert Fleck writes in the duo’s Phaidon monograph, “The images are so strictly constructed and so iconographically innovative … that they introduced a refreshing shock of oxygen into the closed atmosphere of art photography and into contemporary art as a whole, and have now acquired the status of contemporary icons”.
Fischli and Weiss have had solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern, the Walker Art Center, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Kunsthaus Zurich, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, to name but a few.”
Richard Flood, Chief Curator, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
