Erwin Wurm

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Gurke Modernistisch, 2016

Sagaponack

Erwin Wurm was born in 1954 and works in Vienna and in Limberg/Lower Austria.

Erwin Wurm’s complex work includes performance, video, photography, drawing and classical sculpture, many in combination. Wurm understands sculpture through the pre-modern premise that sculpture is concerned with the alteration of mass and volume. His artistic expression, rather like the comic strip or science fiction images, is clear, simple, readily accessible to a wide public. Everyday objects like gherkins, sausages, cars, houses, etc. are detached from their primary function – the artist renders them without purpose, their appearance being that of having become “de-formed.”

This work’s title translates as “Cucumber Modernist.” It’s totally distorted ambience has the effect of a psychedelic stimulus on the viewer’s imagination.

Solo exhibitions include

  • Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)

  • National Gallery/ Prague, Kunsthaus/Graz, Lehmbruck Museum/Duisburg and Küppersmühle Museum of Modern Art/Duisburg.

  • Work appears in important museum collections in Australia, Asia, Europe and North and South America.