Peter Fischli David Weiss / ペーター・フィッシュリダヴィッド・ヴァイス

Prominent Swiss artist duo, Fischli and Weiss. Wielding comprehensive media, including videos and photographs, installations, they have created numerous number of works incorporating tranquil, mundane everyday life with humorous and philosophical views. The internationally acclaimed works of the artists were introduced in Asia for the first time in major scale at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazwa, in this winter. Coinciding with the exhibition, this book has published as a first collection book in Japan.From one piece of junk to another, things set off a chain reaction through carefully and meticulously planned sequences in video work "The Way Things Go", dressed in a rat and bear and accuse the social system of its absurdity in films of "The Right Way" etc., and works in the series of "Sausage Photographs" and "Equilibres", Fischli Weiss's works unfolds unexpected stories especially when they get together with each their title.The humorous but critical views on insecurity in everyday life as well as the flexible ideas and new, infinitive imagination, all charms of Fischli Weiss' works are compiled in this book, also with essays by three critics very acquainted with the artists.