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Zürich : Galerie & Edition Stähli, 1982. (6 7/8 x 4 3/4 in, 17.5 x 12 cm). np. First edition. This copy signed by both artists in pencil on the title page. Grey linen covered thin boards (fine condition save for faint toning to front endpaper from acidic inlay no longer present) in a near fine dust jacket (light soiling). Approximately 190 pages illustrated with photographs of clay sculptures and captions (German and English) throughout. Limited to 2000 copies. From the publisher: "In this small volume, the small, very hand-made-looking clay sculptures are reproduced in low-tech black-and-white and accompanied by the amusing descriptive captions with which they were originally exhibited. As Weiss has explained, The intention was to accumulate various important and unimportant events in the history of mankind, and of the planet moments in the fields of technology, fairy tales, civilization, film, sports, commerce, education, sex, biblical history, nature and entertainment. The scenes they selected include Herr and Frau Einstein shortly after the conception of their son, the genius Albert, and Dr. Albert Hoffman heading home on a bike in Basel after testing the LSD that he just synthesized. Other works in the series include everyday items such as a loaf of bread, a tea set and a pot an early example of the artists fascination with the ordinary. A third category portrays what the artists refer to as Popular Opposites , such as work and play, theory and practice, high and low. According to Fischli, the viewer cannot simultaneously take all the sculptures or all the stories into account…The title describes the opposite of what is actually the case: the confusion and the swamp and the simultaneity of these things ." Reference: Röder, "Sand in der Vaseline: Künstlerbücher II 1980-2002" (3.46). A lovely signed copy. Seller Inventory # 2012327
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