Peter Fischli : People Planet Profit
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People Planet Profit marks Peter Fischli’s first monographic exhibition in France.
One of the most significant artists of his generation, Fischli is known for his four-decades-long collaboration with the late David Weiss (1946-2012) as the groundbreaking conceptual duo Fischli /Weiss. Today, Fischli’s solo practice continues his longstanding critical engagement with the aesthetics of the everyday and systems of meaning, through works that playfully upend the distinctions between art and life.
Encompassing sculpture, installation, video, and sound, spanning 2018 and the present, People Planet Profit explores how the signifiers, symbols, and infrastructures of capitalism vie for our attention, endlessly circulating, shaping and choreographing our movements, shaping our perceptions, and emotions. Far from simply showing images, the exhibition returns and refracts the world back to us in new, ever so slightly skewed and unexpected forms, revealing the architecture of a world in constant, dizzying flux.
Peter Fischli
Peter Fischli (born 1952) lives and works in Zurich. After three decades of collaboration with David Weiss, who died in 2012, Peter Fischli now works as a solo artist. Spanning various media, his practice continues to deal with the question of the filters of attention that mediate our relationship to the world, as well as the thresholds of the personal and the historical, and between the artistic and non-artistic.
His recent projects include exhibitions at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin; By Art Matters, Hangzhou; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles and New York City.