Erwin Wurm
dal 23/3/2010 al 5/6/2010
Segnalato da
23/3/2010
Erwin Wurm
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
The exhibition tries to elucidate the way the artist handles the concept behind the individual and collective identity of our society. Based on a concentrated selection of works that ranges from the early 1990s to 2009 with a focus on those from the last three years, an artistic cosmos emerges that, at its core, is about the tragedy of ludicrous man who is hopelessly trapped within the shell of his social existence.
Erwin Wurm, who has in the meantime become an internationally sought-after Austrian artist, cavorts on the borderline between sculpture, action and performance and has thus given the field of sculpture a decisive shot in the arm.
With him everything can turn into sculpture: actions, instructions written or sketched, even a thought. From his early dust sculptures via the “One Minute Sculptures” to the space-filling “Fat Cars” or “Fat Houses”, a broad arc is spanned behind whose superficial and quirkily witty exterior is hidden sharp social criticism as well philosophical acumen.
Kunstmuseum Bonn investigates this lustily mushrooming work to elucidate the way the artist handles the concept behind the individual and collective identity of our society. Based on a concentrated selection of works that ranges from the early 1990s to 2009 with a focus on those from the last three years, an artistic cosmos emerges that, at its core, is about the tragedy of ludicrous man who is hopelessly trapped within the shell of his social existence.
For the exhibition, a comprehensive catalogue will be published by Dumont Verlag with contributions by Helmut Friedel, Franz Schuh, Stephan Berg, etc.
Image: Erwin Wurm, Hamlet Untitled, 2007
Opening: 24th March 2010, h 8 p.m.
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Museumsmeile, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2, Bonn
Tuesday – Sunday: 11 am to 6 pm
Wednesday: 11 am to 9 pm
Closed on monday, 23, 27 of february, 24, 25 and 31 of december.