Peter Fischli & David Weiss
dal 16/4/2008 al 30/8/2008
Segnalato da
16/4/2008
Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Questions & Flowers - A Retrospective. The Swiss artists have unfolded an immense wealth of ideas in their sculptures, photographic works, video installations and artist books with humor and subtleness . The absurdity of the common and trivial in every day life provide the basis of their works. Fischli & Weiss represented Switzerland many times at the biennale in Venice and other international cultural events.
In collaboration with Tate Modern, London and Kunsthaus Zurich, the Swiss artists Peter Fischli (*1952) and David Weiss (*1946) both born and living in Zurich, have unfolded an immense wealth of ideas in their sculptures, photographic works, video installations and artist books with humor and subtleness . The absurdity of the common and trivial in every day life provide the basis of their works. Fischli & Weiss represented Switzerland many times at the biennale in Venice and other international cultural events.
The film „The Way Things Go“ was the favourite of the public at the documenta8 in 1987. Their works are shown in various museums around the world, like the Guggenheim museum New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Art in Basel ort he Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. The first retrospectiv of the Swiss artists will be shown at the Deichtorhallen, conceived by Fischli&Weiss themselves for the North hall.The exhibition is in cooperation with Tate Modern, London and the Kunsthaus Zurich.An exhibition in line with the Triennale of Photography.
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Until September 9, 2008
The Oeuvre of F.C. Gundlach
F.C. Gundlach became a leading name in more than fourty years of photographic activities and through thousands of publications of his photos in German photography since 1945.
His works/photos have been published in dozens of magazines like Deutsche Illustrierte, Stern and Revue, Film und Frau, Brigitte and Annabell as well as Twen and Deutsch. Especially his fashion photography in Film und Frau, (1952 - 1966) and Brigitte, (1963 - 1986) shaped the picture of women in the young German republic decisively. Apart from his dominating fashion photography works there are articles and remarkable reportages and star portraits, the early photographs in the style of subjective photography and a pool of various travel photographs.
The extensive show includes valuable Vintage prints of key works in the F.C. Gundlach oevre and presents the variety/diversity of publication formats and layouts by means of numerous maganzines and in explicitly layouted catalogues of leading fashion designers.
An exhibition in line with the Triennale of Photography.
Image: Natürliche Grazie (Equilibre), 1984. Fotografie © 2007 Peter Fischli / David Weiss
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