PHO 005        Flowers and Mushrooms        Peter Fischli / David Weiss 1997/98

Header image © Fischli/Weiss
Text: artbook

„Eigentlich gibt es nichts Platteres als Blumenbilder ­— aber auch nichts Schöneres als einen blühenden Garten.“
Peter Fischli / David Weiss

Bursting with luscious color and consisting of multiple superimposed images, these photographs by Fischli/Weiss navigate the fine line between beauty and kitsch. For this series, made between 1997 and 1998, the artists spent countless hours documenting gardens and mushroom patches, thoughtfully crafting intoxicating compositions which took on an element of chance when layered in photographic double exposures. The result is a hallucinogenic portrait of berries, grasses, flowers, weeds and mushrooms in vivid, saturated color, dissolving in and out of focus, beautifully printed on folded, unbound sheets.

All following images © Fischli/Weiss

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