Elie Nadelman, Peter Fischli & David Weiss

Info: In our new exhibition, a fairly comprehensive group of late Nadelman figurines are juxtaposed with three of Fischli and Weiss’s Car sculptures. The Car Sculptures predate the Hostesses. They exist as smooth white plaster sculptures and, even earlier, cast in black rubber, for which one of the sculptures shown here served as a model for the mold. As depictions of ordinary cars, they were introduced into Fischli and Weiss’s oeuvre as representations of the then everyday present. Sanded down and nondescript, their features recall something familiar though faint, ghosts of the ubiquitous. They occupy a particular go-between of figuration, as they depicted something realistic but, as machines, were not figurative as such, echoing the machines in the modernist canon, whose representations were an exception to the rule of non-figuration.