Untitled
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.The multimedia artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss worked collaboratively in photography, video, and sculpture from 1979 until Weiss’s death in 2012. The duo were particularly interested in chance as a conceptual artistic practice. In 1998 they began photographing flowers: one of the pair would shoot an entire of roll of otherwise banal pictures in a suburban garden; the other would rewind the film and repeat the process in Zurich. The dizzying, deeply saturated, superimposed, often psychedelic images allowed the artists to explore the nature of their innovative approach to art making. Weiss noted: "When the photographs come off, it’s like receiving a gift."
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Peter Fischli (Swiss, born 1952)
- Artist: David Weiss (Swiss, 1946–2012)
- Date: 1998
- Medium: Silver dye bleach print
- Dimensions: Image: 49 × 73 in. (124.5 × 185.4 cm)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
- Curatorial Department: Photographs