Erwin Wurm
dal 6/12/2000 al 21/1/2001
Segnalato da
6/12/2000
Erwin Wurm
The Photographers' Gallery, London
The first British solo show for Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, which surveys a decade of work in sculpture, photography and video. Erwin Wurm makes sculptures wrought from the human body, choreographed into absurd and witty relationships with objects from everyday life - vegetables, crockery, items of furniture. Each sculpture exists for barely a minute, before gravity triumphs, everything collapses and the only thing left is a photograph.
The first British solo show for Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, which surveys a decade of work in sculpture, photography and video. Erwin Wurm makes sculptures wrought from the human body, choreographed into absurd and witty relationships with objects from everyday life - vegetables, crockery, items of furniture. Each sculpture exists for barely a minute, before gravity triumphs, everything collapses and the only thing left is a photograph.
The traditional sculptural concerns of weight, gravity and volume, are given a new twist in Wurm's work - such as the piece From Size L to Size XXL- which presents easy-to-follow instructions on how to gain two extra sizes in just eight days. The humorous quality of Wurm's work belies a serious investigation into the relationship between performance, sculpture and photography.
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Institute.
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