During my second week of fine art, my teacher introduced me to these artists called Fischi and Weiss who were an artistic duo mainly working with clay sculptures.
Their work consisted of comedic and intelligent wit. A prime example being their first collaborative project: "Wurstserie" which consisted of a series of sliced sausages which would be shown reacting to senarios to situations such as traffic accidents and so forth. This is very similar to anthropomorphism, which sets the comedic theme.
I also learnt that in some of their pieces of work, the duo would create forms and events that actually happened, this also reflects upon day to day events that are echoed in everyones lives. Hence the title 'The World We Live In' this displayed a subjective viewpoint of the artists views on the occurrences in the world. It revolves around almost rhetorical questions as they cannot be answered like: "what does it mean to be alive".
I could not really find much else about their work because it was so succinct and I found that there was a reoccurring theme reprised in each piece of work that they did.
The reason behind the research of these artists is because I made a TV theatre, which is quite reminiscent to this work because I used clay figures as the main focal point of my piece, my peers found my design to be unexpected and humorous, which is the exact words described for Fischli and Weiss.
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