Peter Fischli, David Weiss - Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - Konig 1999

Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been working closely together since 1979. Continuing their joint artistic strategy, they have spent a year travelling across the countryside and through the woods, tracing and photographing countless species of flowers at their various flowering times. This current work is not based on a scientific method or botanical research, but on an aesthetic concept. In a kind of deliberately ‘naïve’ provocation, the artists create a distance through the diversity of the images, the intensification of the colours and the use of an exaggerated scale, which forces the viewer to question them. This work with its real aesthetic seductive power, which comes close to a ‘statement’, betrays both lightness and seriousness. Behind the apparent banality, it reveals something unique.
Published in conjunction with the 1999 exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Essay by Boris Groys.

84p - GER/FR - 27,5x20cm - 42 loses pages, softcover - perfect condition