Fischli and Weiss: hamming it up at the Guggenheim

The Swiss art duo employed everything from sausages to pizza boxes in their deadpan, witty and sometimes deliberately banal artworks – and now their work is all over New YorkIn 1979, the Swiss art duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss strolled into a Zurich supermarket searching for art supplies. They stopped at the deli. “We saw the cold cuts in the glass vitrine, pointed to it and said: ‘Look, it looks like a carpet shop,’” said Fischli on the phone from the Guggenhei