Peter Fischli and David Weiss are Swiss artists who first began working together in the late 1970s. Their sculpture, video and photographic works all generate a unique atmosphere of concentration and relaxed pleasure. The mood of the work ranges from the humorous - a clay figure group of 1981, for exam pie, entitled Mick Jagger and Brian Jones going home satisfied after composing "1 Can "t Get No Satisfaction'- to the banal - a photographic series devoted to Airports- and even the apparently invisible -their Untitled installation simulating, through minutely detailed polyurethane sculptures, an unfinished exhibition site. While Fischli and Weiss occupy the international art world's most prestigious levels- representing Switzerland at the 1995 Venice Biennale and returning eight years later to win the Leone d'Oro prize for their slideshow Will Happiness Find Me?- they remain an unpredictable force at the very cutting edge of new art.

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