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Fischli and Weiss: Flowers & Questions. A Retrospective

An Unsettled Work (2004), originally titled Freakshows, Monsters, is composed of pictures that were taken during the making of Visible World, but were ultimately rejected as too macabre or grotesque for the final work. The images include nightclub scenes, ghost trains, bloodied wax figures, cows and dolls heads, and Christmas decorations, which are lavishly superimposed over one another and morphed in sequences. According to Fischli, 'the unpleasant and pleasant should inexplicably overlap in a sort of beautiful, feverish madness, in the end imploding under an overwhelming number of interpretive possibilities.'

FISCHLI, Peter
WEISS, David
Airports
Cibachrome photograph, exh. copy 1600 x 2250 mm
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York & Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich & Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne/Munich/London
FISCHLI, Peter
WEISS, David
Airports
Cibachrome photograph 1600 x 2250 mm
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York & Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich & Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne/Munich/London
FISCHLI, Peter
WEISS, David
Airports
Cibachrome photograph 1600 x 2250 mm
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York & Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich & Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne/Munich/London
FISCHLI, Peter, WEISS, David, An Unsettled WorkFISCHLI, Peter
WEISS, David
An Unsettled Work
Original version: 162 slides, 2 slide carousels, 2 projectors, 1 dissolve unit; DVD, exh. copy
Collection Thomas and Cristina Bechtler, Switzerland