Peter Fischli & David Weiss
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For their work, they make use of a large bandwidth of artistic forms of expression: Film and photography, art-books, sculptures made out of different materials, and multimedia-installations. They adapt objects and situations of the everyday life and place them into an artistic context — often using humour and irony.
Art critics often see in the parodying bearing of their work parallels to the artists Marcel Duchamp, Dieter Roth or Jean Tinguely.
Fischli/Weiss frequently represent Switzerland at international cultural events, like the Venice Biennale and others. Both live and work in Zurich.
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