Frankfurt am Main, PORTIKUS, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, 23 September – 2 October,1988
Literature
P. Frey, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Frankfurt am Main, 1988, p. 16 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
The artists share a heritage that goes back to Marcel Duchamp and the Dada movement of the early 20th century, expanding on the notion of the readymade as objet d’art to include well-crafted replications of everyday objects, artfully carved in polyurethane and hand-painted. Often using found objects and existing materials, Fischli and Weiss are not content to merely question the definition of art; they fracture our sense of security among the familiar objects of our world by subverting their functions and investing them with new life and meaning. Taken from www.sfmoma.org