At the National Gallery yesterday, despite our pause for thought by the appallingly huge sculpture of A Girl (newborn) by Ron Mueck, the exhibit that grabbed our attention for the longest time was one I've never seen before, and whether it should be classified as comic drama, film, sculpture, photography or engineering I'm not sure. This was a screening of Der Lauf der Dinge, the video recording of a 30 minute long chain reaction carefully engineered from everyday objects by artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss of Switzerland, an extract from which can be found on YouTube. I bet you won't be able to stop watching until the sequence fades out, if you click here. In the gallery where we saw it, another film was running simultaneously, showing the artists struggling to set it up. Anyone who questions causality (Chris) should take note of this!
Heath Robinson would have recognised a couple of kindred spirits.
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