Flowers & Mushrooms (exhibition catalog by Peter Fischli & David Weiss)

PETER FISCHLI and DAVID WEISS

ISBN 10: 3863358740 / ISBN 13: 9783863358747

Published by Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig , Guggenheim 2016, 2016

About this Item

This is an exhibition catalogue of loose sheets by Peter Fischli & David Weiss; printed by off-set lithograph by Bruno Mancia, Zurich; no text on any of the images except on front paper wrapper; a one sheet text insert by Boris Groys and Laurence Bosse in English and German ; 40 different images of flowers in a brilliant blaze of colour, with no borders; each sheet folds open to: 15-3/4 x 10-3/4in; the back side is blank white; SUBJECT matter: "multiplicity of the images. and the use of an exaggerated scale" close-up look at flowers in their natural environments; edition size is unknown; it is not signed; only opened to photograph; in original shrink wrap; all sheets in VERY GOOD COND. Seller Inventory # 7878

Bibliographic Details

Title: Flowers & Mushrooms (exhibition catalog by ...

Publisher: Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig , Guggenheim 2016

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

This volume is a reprint of the magnificent and rare artist's book by the Swiss duo Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012). Bursting with luscious color and consisting of multiple superimposed images, these photographs by Fischli/Weiss (dubbed "the Nichols and May of contemporary art" by The New York Times for their critically admired brand of humor) navigate the fine line between beauty and kitsch. For this series, made between 1997 and 1998, the artists spent countless hours documenting gardens and mushroom patches, thoughtfully crafting intoxicating compositions which took on an element of chance when layered in photographic double exposures. The result is a hallucinogenic portrait of berries, grasses, flowers, weeds and mushrooms in vivid, saturated color, dissolving in and out of focus, beautifully printed on folded, unbound sheets.