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Fischli / Weiss – Plötzlich diese Übersicht
Fischli / Weiss – Plötzlich diese Übersicht
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The work "Plötzlich diese Übersicht" by Swiss artists Peter Fischli (*1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012), a loose collection of over 350 hand-sculpted, unfired clay figures, is one of those works of art that everyone knows, even if they are not that interested in art.
The artists have achieved the masterpiece of creating sculptural "snapshots" from a completely unspectacular material that sparkle with spirit and cheerfulness: sketchily modeled situations and objects from everyday life that reveal the absurdity and constructed normality of the ordinary when reproduced in clay. Alongside this, semi-freely imagined scenes and events from history, culture, entertainment, sport and diffuse memories of his own biography, which are visualized in symbolically shaped stagings. The titles, characterized by subtle mockery, fragmentary encyclopedic knowledge and serious irony, are an integral part of the work.
The artist's book provides an overview of the "Overview"; in addition, the excellent illustrations reveal the sculptural aspect of this multi-part work, begun in 1981, whose quality and undiminished topicality lie not only in the subtle humor of language and form-finding.
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The artists have achieved the masterpiece of creating sculptural "snapshots" from a completely unspectacular material that sparkle with spirit and cheerfulness: sketchily modeled situations and objects from everyday life that reveal the absurdity and constructed normality of the ordinary when reproduced in clay. Alongside this, semi-freely imagined scenes and events from history, culture, entertainment, sport and diffuse memories of his own biography, which are visualized in symbolically shaped stagings. The titles, characterized by subtle mockery, fragmentary encyclopedic knowledge and serious irony, are an integral part of the work.
The artist's book provides an overview of the "Overview"; in addition, the excellent illustrations reveal the sculptural aspect of this multi-part work, begun in 1981, whose quality and undiminished topicality lie not only in the subtle humor of language and form-finding.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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