Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Peter Fischli (born 8 June 1952) and David Weiss (21 June 1946 – 27 April 2012), often shortened to Fischli/Weiss, were an artist duo that had been collaborating since 1979. They were among the most renowned contemporary artists of Switzerland. Their best-known work is the film Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go). This was described by The Guardian as being "post apocalyptic", as it is all about chain reactions and the way in which objects fly, crash, and explode across the studio it was shot in. Fischli lives and works in Zurich; Weiss died on 27 April 2012.
Read more about Peter Fischli & David Weiss: Education and Early Career, Work, Exhibitions, Collections, Recognition, Contributions
Famous quotes containing the words peter and/or david:
“That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)