Peter Fischli & David Weiss March 13, 2006

Forming the first major US exhibition for Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss since 2002, Rat and Bear and Fotografías represent an overview of seminal early work and recent projects. Rat and Bear reinvents original costumes used in the films The Least Resistance (1981) and The Right Way (1983), suspending them in mysteriously opaque plexi cases, self-reflexively suggesting that the artists have achieved enduring, if perhaps unlooked-for, status as art historical icons. Fotografías presents sequences of snapshots of wall murals taken from Fischli and Weiss' travels around the world. Captured in black-and-white, 4x6-inch slide film, the vibrant imagery of their subject matter appears like faded offerings from some ghostly pop-cultural atlas. (AM)

Note: Fotografías is on exhibit at the 24th St gallery, and Rat and Bear is exhibited at the 22nd St location.

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