Category: Artists
Nationality: Swiss
Last Year: New
Opinion is remarkably undivided on Fischli/Weiss. They’re recognised masters of deadpan enquiry into the everyday, increasingly obviously so thanks to their retrospective Flowers & Questions, which toured institutions from 2006 to 2008. To follow, and mindful of a 2009 exhibition at Madrid’s Reina Sofía museum collating their ‘Rat and Bear’ works, the Swiss pair reanimated their tragicomic animal phenomenologists – who, in Part of a Film with Rat and Bear (2008), float hilariously and plaintively around Milan’s Palazzo Litta. If their animal avatars are lost in space, Fischli/ Weiss – who this year celebrate 30 years of working together – are as surefooted as ever.