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Altri fiori e altre domande is the first major exhibition in Italy by Peter Fischli & David Weiss. The exhibition is a unique occasion to enter the surreal worlds invented by these Swiss artists, who have come to occupy a central role in the history of contemporary art.
Specifically conceived for the seventeenth century rooms of Palazzo Litta, the exhibition - like the complete oeuvre of Fischli & Weiss - blurs the border between the normal and the exceptional. Amaong the brocade tapestries, fragile chinoiserie and baroque mirrors of Palazzo Litta, which is opening its doors to contemporary art for the first time. Altri fiori e altre domande collects new works and a selection of more then forty historical pieces by Fischli & Weiss, offering a compelling view of their nearly thirty year long career.
For Altri fiori e altre domande, Fischli & Weiss have created an exhibition that insinuates itself into the spectacular spaces of the Palazzo, leaving its decor and atmosphere untouched while staging a series of sudden revelations and intimate encounters with their work.
Installed in the sumptuous rooms of Palazzo Litta, Fischli & Weiss’mysterious objects and miniature crises turn the building into an absurd dollhouse.
The imperceptible distance between reality and fiction is one of the central themes in Fischli & Weiss work. In one of their most famous series, the artists meticulously reproduced a myriad of objects by scupting them in polyurethane, an extremely light and delicate material, which captures all the life’s feagility.
Untitled (Pallets) (2001-2004) opens the door to what normally remains hidden in an art show: realized with maniacal precision, Fischli & Weiss’common objects are carefully staged to suggest a state of permanent disorder, as thought the viewers were for once allowed to take a peek behind the curtains of an exhibition.
In the astounding, hyper-realistic Untitled (Rotterdam) (2000-04), one of the final room of Altri fiori altre domande is turned into a Janitor’s closet in which each object has been perfectly scupted and painted by hand. Fischli & Weiss look at the world as it were a daydream, one that is often shaded with dark, dramatic nuances.
The installation Questions (1980-2003) is pervaded by existential doubts and anxious uncertainties, fears and dreams we all experience at night before falling asleep - but are they cheap philosophical throughts or esoteric epiphanies? In their legendary film The Way Things Go (1986-87) everyday objects alive and chase each other in an exhilarating sequence of chain reactions, a domino effect in which chaos and order endlessly vie for supremacy.
In the final rooms of the exhibition, a giant cat sips milk from a dish while the sounds of a radio hovers in the air. As in many other Fischli & Weiss works Radio (2008) hides a mysterious surprise: it broadcasts straight from the past, summoning songs and news bulletins from a few months ago.
The exhibition Altri fiori e altre domande brings to Milan the hallucinatory visions of Fischli & Weiss in a unique combination of a new and historical works that become all the more visionary in the baroque rooms of Palazzo Litta.

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