Erwin Wurm: Fat Survival - Softcover

Damianovic, Maia; Durand, Regis; Weiermair, Peter; Weibel, Peter; Wurm, Erwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775711813 ISBN 13: 9783775711814

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

Erwin Wurm is a sculptor who does not mold clay, chisel stone, or carve wood. Instead, he provides objects such as pullovers, brooms, and boxes to spectators who are then meant to do something with these objects. The resulting situations, in which a person pulls on a pullover, or balances a broom, or puts a box over her head, are grotesque, unstable, and very temporary, and all that remains of them afterwards are photographs and videos of their short life. In dynamic works such as these, which Wurm collectively titles "One Minute Sculptures," the very concept of sculpture is challenged and expanded, continuing a line of inquiry begun with Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades and furthered by Bruce Nauman and Gilbert & George's performative sculpture works. Wurm is similarly concerned with reinvigorating the static, unchanging art object by introducing ideas of process, action, and the living body, but he adds an element of time to the mixture, insisting on spontaneity, brevity, and endless permutations. Fat Survival provides a broad survey of Wurm's oeuvre from the early 1990s to the present.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, Erwin Wurm has had solo exhibitions at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Kunsthaus Bregenz; and FRAC Limousin, Limoges. His work has also been featured in the Venice Biennale, the 5th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, and the Taipei Biennial.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3775711813
• ISBN 13: 9783775711814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Steinle Christa