Fischli & Weiss, were an artist duo that had been collaborating since 1979. David Weiss passed away today, because of a cancer. Fischli lives and works in Zurich. They are among the most renowned contemporary artists of Switzerland. Their best known work being the film “Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go).” described by The Guardian as being “post apocalyptic” as it is all about chain reactions and the way in which objects fly, crash, and explode across the studio it was shot in.
David Weiss studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, Zurich, and the Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel; he subsequently worked as sculptor with Alfred Gruder and Jaqueline Stieger. The work of the duo is held, among others, in the collections of the Tate, the Guggenheim, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Fischli and Weiss won the Golden Lion prize at the 2003 Venice Biennale for Questions, an installation of over 1,000 photographic slides of handwritten existential questions the artists had collected over many years.
