Sonne, Mond und Sterne is an 800-page artist's book consisting of just as many images, inspired by an international selection of magazine advertisements and compiled and organized into loose categories by the influential Swiss artistic collaborators Fischli & Weiss. Designed in collaboration with the rising Zurich design firm NORM, this volume reconfigures Fischli & Weiss' contribution to the Ringier AG Annual Report 2007. It is a revealing--and perhaps unnerving--look at the images and slogans that constitute our glutted contemporary media landscape. The viewer is plunged into a flood of imagery that, when taken out of its original commercial context, unfolds into unlikely open-ended narratives. Based in Zurich, Fischli & Weiss began collaborating in 1979 in a variety of media including photography, video and installation. They are perhaps best known for their playful The Way Things Go (1987), a video documenting the endless machinations of a Rube Goldberg-esque contraption that seems to have no practical purpose whatsoever. This volume, edited by Kunsthalle Zurich Director Beatrix Ruf, is a never-before-published work.
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Peter Fischli and David Weiss were both born in Zurich, Switzerland--Fischli in 1952 and Weiss in 1946. They began to work collaboratively in 1979, and had their first solo exhibition in 1981 at the Galerie Balkon in Geneva. Solo exhibitions of their work have been organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others. They represented Switzerland in both the 1995 and 2003 Venice Biennales, winning the Golden Lion award in 2003, and were included in the 1987 and 1997 Documentas. They live and work in Zurich.
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This review is from: Peter Fischli & David Weiss: Sonne, Mond und Sterne (Paperback)
Really interesting book. It is filled with advertisements torn out of magazines, one per page. Some of them look slightly enlarged, but otherwise they appear as untouched facsimiles. The ads, in French, German, and English mostly, are for everything from cars to hotels to vacation spots to detergents, and most of them are recognizable. They are loosely grouped by their various qualities. Some sequences group ads with a predominant color, while others group ads with cars or animals. Several sequences echo simple shapes.
The proper work, as displayed in galleries, showed the actual pages arranged on tables under plexi. It was a bit easier to get a sense of the loose associations by looking at them all at once as one walked around the tables. I think much of the effect of the work depends on quick glances between multiple ads because the relationships between them are not always apparent. The book presentation of the work is still very good, even if a little flipping back and forth between pages is required.
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