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one minute sculptures
Erwin Wurm, one of Austria's most important and
internationally famous sculptors, has been preoccupied with expanding the
concept of sculpture since the 1980s. In his "One Minute Sculptures", for
example - temporary, grotesquely comic works - he invites the spectator to
become a sculpture, even providing various kinds of accessories for the purpose.
What remain are photographs or videos showing a single moment in the short life
of these sculptures. Erwin Wurm's utilization of the media of photography and
video is highly distinctive and enables him to include not only the classical
parameters of sculpture - gravity, weight, static equilibrium, stability,
materiality, form - but additionally the parameter of time. Human bodies in
combination with objects and positions they can only hold for a few moments are
an ideal means of extending sculpture into the realm of the media. This volume,
"Fat Survival", illustrated mainly in colour, provides a condensed survey of
Erwin Wurm's work since the early 1990s.
Erwin Wurm at the CNP, Paris
The Centre national de la photographie in Paris shows works by the
Austrian artist from May 29 until August 28, 2002.
During the last seven
years, Erwin Wurm has created a complex series of videos, photographs, and
performance works in which a variety of simple, yet bizarre, actions are
depicted. Collectively titled "One Minute Sculptures", the works show the artist
or other performers - often volunteers solicited through newspaper ads -
carrying out peculiar feats in unusual settings. In one, for example, a person
dives head first into a crate with their legs flailing jack-in-the-box style; in
another, someone does push-ups on four teacups; while in yet another, a
regular-looking man in a suit stands with two strands of asparagus stuck up his
nose. Although staged with a conspicuous absence of special effects, these
scenes nonetheless propose an "otherness" of meaning or intention that, while
difficult to pigeonhole, captures both the eye and the imagination with great
potency.
from: Maia Damianovic 'From Moment to Moment', in: "Erwin Wurm"
"The act of
dealing with sweaters, putting them on and taking them off, is hardly ever
perceived consciously. When the object, i.e. the sweater, is stretched so that
the body of the wearer can find its way into this envelope, when it shrinks so
as to adapt to the body's contours and to create a shape or a lack thereof, an
essential plastic process takes place."
Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm
One Minute Sculptures : 1988-1998 Index of Works
by Edwin Wurm, Erwin
Wurm
296 pages, published by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Erwin Wurm was
born in 1954 and lives and works in Vienna. He has had solo exhibitions at the
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; at Kunsthaus Bregenz, and at
FRAC Limousin in Limoges. He has also featured in many important group
exhibitions including, most recently, Partages d'Exotismes, the 5th Lyon
Biennale of Contemporary Art and the forthcoming Taipei Biennal.
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