David Weiss

1946–2012

Creative Chain Reactions

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

Art Term

Kinetic art

Kinetic art is art that depends on motion for its effects
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'One of the most important days in my life'

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Alighiero Boetti at Tate Modern
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MicroTate 21

Daniel Sinsel , Jonathan Allen , Simon Wallis and Fred Grose

Contemporary reflections on a work in the Tate collection
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If at first you don't succeed, celebrate: Failure

Lisa Le Feuvre

Lisa Le Feuvre on Failure, Tate Etc issue 19, Spring 2010
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Tate Etc. issue 18: Spring 2010

Tate Etc. Issue 18 Spring 2010 online edition of Tate's magazine
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Can you believe it?

Michael Diers

Trompe l’œil celebrated as the art of illusion in antiquity.
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Working it out: Fischli/Weiss

Ryan Gander

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