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Reader Tip: Sausage Art from Fischli & Weiss

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Reader Cindy writes in... I love the sausage rug! Here's a link to a Fischli & Weiss Photo from the 80s. It called "The Carpet Dealer" Enjoy! (Yes, those are gherkins.) There's plenty of information about these Swiss photographers as there work is in collections of the Tate, Moma, etc. Unfortunately for me, most of it is in German...
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Thanks Cindy!aaron

Comments (8)

Ummm... I gotta say "Ewww" on the sausage rugs. Just something creepy about 'em, like maybe they'd leave a big grease stain on the floor or something! Ha ha...

posted by Monica Ricci on 2006-10-23 10:12:09

Ewwwww. That's disturbingly gross. What the hell? The lighting in the first picture makes it seem even more nasty. I'd hate to have balogna on my floor. That's why I'd never pay thousands of $ for it. Ick.

posted by Cassandra in Canada on 2006-10-23 10:18:29

ewwwwww!

posted by hanifa on 2006-10-23 10:47:07

I love it.

posted by matt on 2006-10-23 11:00:03

For me it doesn't do the thing that art teachers tell you to shoot for, which is to have it "begin to become something else". It's still pretty much cold cuts in these pictures.

posted by Curtis on 2006-10-23 11:06:31

the gherkins in the first photo are freaking me out!

posted by the opoponax on 2006-10-23 12:13:11

LOVE the first picture. After spending lots of time in morrocan rug marts, following elaborate rituals about showing the proper level of interest/disdain and watching as one gorgeous rug after another is thrown down, there's something about this that just seems brilliant.

posted by G on 2006-10-23 15:47:28

wonder if this is how the stones of the pyramids were slid into place...human lubricant.

"you, yes you... just lie down with the others and position the stone with your legs and arms while we hold the stone".

posted by ion on 2006-10-23 21:50:17
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