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Fischli and Weiss - The Way Things Go (Paperback)
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Fischli and Weiss - The Way Things Go (Paperback)
Series: Fischli and Weiss
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Loot Price R542
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An illustrated discussion of Fischli and Weiss's famous film The
Way Things Go, marking the twentieth anniversary of its first
screening, explores why this captivating work continues to
fascinate viewers. The Way Things Go (Der Lauf der Dinge) is a
thirty-minute film by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss
featuring a series of chain reactions involving ordinary objects.
It is also one of the truly amazing works of art produced in the
late twentieth century. Admired, even loved, by members of the
public as much as it is praised by the more specialist audience of
artists, critics, and curators, The Way Things Go was perhaps the
most popular work shown at Documenta 8, Kassel, in 1987. The work
embodies many of the qualities that make Fischli and Weiss's work
among the most captivating in the world today: slapstick humor and
profound insight; a forensic attention to detail; a sense of
illusion and transformation; and the dynamic exchange between
states of order and chaos. In discussing what makes The Way Things
Go utterly compelling to its viewers-whether they have seen it one
time or many times-Jeremy Millar leaves no doubt as to why this
film was chosen for the One Works series. As everyday objects
crash, scrape, slide, or fly into one another with devastating,
impossible, and persuasive effect, viewers find themselves
witnessing a spectacle that seems at once prehistoric and
postapocalyptic. Millar tells us why this extraordinary film speaks
to us at the beginning of the twenty-first century. If history is
"just one thing after another," then The Way Things Go is truly a
historic work. Jeremy Millar is an artist. He is the author of
Place (with Tacita Dean) and has contributed to many artist's
monographs. He has also curated many solo and group exhibitions
internationally. Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss
received Europe's most coveted art prize, the Roswitha Haftmann
Prize, in November 2006. A major retrospective of their work,
"Flowers and Questions," originating at the Tate, London, travels
to Zurich and Hamburg in 2007 and 2008.
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