For two days only, the five-hundred-squared-meters (more than 5.000 square feet) screen that covers the scaffoldings of the Palazzo dell’Arengario will be home to one of the most celebrated masterpieces of contemporary art.

The Way Things Go - Peter Fischli & David Weiss’ bizarre encyclopaedia of accidents - will be presented for the first time in an extraordinary public screening, enlarged to epic proportions.

Peter Fischli & David Weiss have been working together since 1979 during which time they have established themselves as the prophets of an art of childish amazement, ferocious scepticism, and primal stupor. The Swiss duo casts an enchanted look upon the world, revealing its banal beauty and its astonishing dullness.

The forty-minute film The Way Things Go (1987) is one of Peter Fischli & David Weiss’ most fundamental works. In the film, everyday objects become alive and chase each other in an exhilarating sequence of chain reactions, a domino effect in which chaos and order endlessly wrestle for supremacy.

For this presentation in Milan, The Way Things Go escapes the confines of museums and exhibition spaces to directly challenge the audiences in the streets of the city of Milan. Shown in Piazza del Duomo, the film becomes a gigantic visual poem, a larger than life Odyssey in which banal objects and surreal machines give life to spectacular catastrophes and Do-It-Yourself revelations.

The film The Way Things Go is also included in the exhibition Altri fiori e altre domande, Fischli & Weiss' first retrospective in Italy at Palazzo Litta (Corso Magenta, 24). Produced by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi Altri fiori e altre domande will be open until March 16, 2008 (everyday from 10:00am to 8:00pm with free entrance).
The Way Things Go in Piazza del Duomo, Milan is presented by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in collaboration with the project MIA - Milano In Alto, Piazza del Duomo (realized by Urban Screen Spa).

Peter Fischli
David Weiss

THE WAY THINGS GO
Piazza del Duomo,
Megascreen

Saturday March 8, 2008
4:00 PM
Sunday March 9, 2008
4:00 PM and 6:00 PM