Research Catalog

Title

Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss / edited by Theodora Vischer.

Publication

• Ostfildern : Hatje/Cantz, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.
• Fischli, Peter, 1952-
• Weiss, David, 1946-2012.
• Vischer, Theodora
• Fondation Beyeler, host institution

Description

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 31 cm

Summary

The American artist Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and Swiss artists Peter Fischli (1952- ) and David Weiss (1946-2012) have sought and found quintessential ways of rendering a moment of fragile balance in art--a temporary state at once precarious and propitious. With Calder's groundbreaking invention of the mobile in the early nineteen thirties, and Fischli/Weiss's collaborative creative work from 1979 onwards, these artists each lent the theme of fragile balance an iconic form of a very different kind. At first glance, both positions could hardly be more different; later, however, they proved to be two sides of the same coin, the result of different perspectives on the same theme at different times. The elaborately designed, richly illustrated catalogue with accompanying essays provides extensive insight into both oeuvres. Exhibition: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland (29.05-04.09.2016).

Alternative Title

Alexander Calder and Fischli/Weiss

Subjects

• Artistic collaboration
• Mobiles (Sculpture)
• Weiss, David, 1946-2012
• Fischli, Peter, 1952-
• Mobiles (Sculpture) > Exhibitions
• Fischli & Weiss
• Switzerland
• Weiss, David, 1946-2012 > Exhibitions
• Fischli, Peter, 1952- > Exhibitions
• Proportion (Art) > Exhibitions
• Artistic collaboration > Switzerland > Exhibitions
• Fischli & Weiss Exhibitions
• Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, May 29-September 4, 2016.

Call Number

JQG 16-696

ISBN

• 9783775741279
• 3775741275
• 9783906053325
• 3906053326

OCLC

957184414

Title

Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss / edited by Theodora Vischer.

Publisher

Ostfildern : Hatje/Cantz, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976. Works. Selections.

Fischli, Peter, 1952- Works. Selections.

Weiss, David, 1946-2012. Works. Selections.

Vischer, Theodora, editor.

Fondation Beyeler, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 16-696