This retrospective is titled after the name of a piece of Fischli
and Weiss's artwork which also appears on the streets of New York from February 5 to
May 1 as a part of this show. That is a readymade artwork which has been hand-painted on a building.
When you first step into this exhibition, you see the sculpture
Rat and Bear placed in the middle of
the hall. These two characters were used in other works of Fischli and Weiss’s. Follow the spiral of Guggenheim Museum and you can see the artists' works in sequence: Walls, Corners, Tubes; Suddenly
This Overview; The Way Things Go; Visible World; Polyurethane Objects and
Rubber Sculptures. From these works, you can easily perceive the key elements of their works: their subject is based on insignificant ordinary things to discuss serious questions and they prefer to work in series. All of them are really stimulating people to
involve into the thinking of art and making this process of thinking into their
art works.
The curators didn’t place the works in chronological order in this retrospective. This decision in some degree fits the artists' idea very well: they are not constantly changing their idea of art but keep finding new things to enrich it. Anyway, if you felt that art is not that serious and even got the impulse of making art after you saw it, this means their art really works.
Rat and Bear
Photo: David M. Heald
Suddenly This Overview
Photo: David M. Heald
Walls, Corners, Tubes
Photo: David M. Heald
Polyurethane Objects and Rubber Sculptures
Photo: David M. Heald
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