Curator Bice Curiger recalls her experience with Swiss artists Fischli/Weiss in the 1970s and ’80s, the era of their “Sausage Series,” “Rat and Bear” films and infamous anus-view sculpture Animal…
Think and think again. Two history-engaging, European-inflected, cerebral yet very material shows in New York right now take Conceptualism from the droll (Marcel Broodthaers) to the slapstick
Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss began collaborating in 1979 (Weiss died in 2012), imbuing varied works—almost all concerned with the banality of the artists' everyday lives—with their trademar…