David Weiss

1946–2012

Peter Fischli, ‘Untitled’ 2005 — Untitled 2005
© Peter Fischli and the estate of David Weiss, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
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Artworks

Peter Fischli, David Weiss Visible World

1997
Peter Fischli, David Weiss Untitled

2005
Peter Fischli, David Weiss Untitled

2005
Peter Fischli, David Weiss Untitled (Tate)

1992–2000

On display at Tate Modern part of The Tanks
Peter Fischli, David Weiss Untitled

2005
Peter Fischli, David Weiss Untitled

2005
Peter Fischli, David Weiss Untitled (Small Root)

2005

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Creative Chain Reactions

In this discussion, the advertising creative behind one of the campaigns inspired by Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s The Way …

Features

Art Term

Kinetic art

Kinetic art is art that depends on motion for its effects
Tate Etc

'One of the most important days in my life'

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Alighiero Boetti at Tate Modern
Tate Etc

MicroTate 21

Daniel Sinsel , Jonathan Allen , Simon Wallis and Fred Grose

Contemporary reflections on a work in the Tate collection
Tate Etc

If at first you don't succeed, celebrate: Failure

Lisa Le Feuvre

Lisa Le Feuvre on Failure, Tate Etc issue 19, Spring 2010
Tate Etc

Tate Etc. issue 18: Spring 2010

Tate Etc. Issue 18 Spring 2010 online edition of Tate's magazine
Tate Etc

Can you believe it?

Michael Diers

Trompe l’œil celebrated as the art of illusion in antiquity.
Tate Etc

Working it out: Fischli/Weiss

Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander praises Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s ten-point manifesto How to work better
Tate Etc

The flowering of a new unreality?: Fischli/Weiss II

Jan Avgikos

Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s first New York solo exhibition in 1986 at the Sonnabend Gallery featured replicas of regular …
Tate Etc

The way things went: Fischli/Weiss III

Patrick Frey

The diverse body of work created by the Fischli/Weiss collaboration ranges from polyurethane trompe l’oeil buckets to films of home-made …
Tate Etc

Bound to fail: Open Systems I

Christy Lange

The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object, with the emphasis shifting away from the static artwork …

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