Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm ( born July 27, 1954 in Bruck an der Mur) is an Austrian artist.
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Erwin Wurm for more than two decades working on a multi-layered work, which can be rewritten sculpture / sculpture with extension of the concepts. His work includes material sculptures, actions, videos, photos, drawings and books. One of the most influential business groups are doing worm " One Minute Sculptures " dar. Erwin Wurm is one of the most successful contemporary artists.
From 1977 to 1979 he attended the University Mozarteum in Salzburg from 1979 to 1982, he attended the Academy of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts.
From 2002 to 2010 he was professor of sculpture / sculpture and multimedia at the Department of Visual and Media Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
A wider public he was known for his One Minute Sculptures, for people with everyday objects posing in a surprising coincidence, then what worm documented through photographs. Frequently, these are also to visitors to the exhibition, which themselves become the object of aesthetic experience as part of the exhibition situation, whereby the proportion of subject and object is discussed. Popular were these One Minute Sculptures, among others, by the video of the group Red Hot Chili Peppers for their single " Can not Stop " from the year 2003, in the Erwin Wurm is mentioned as a source of inspiration.
Also worm " Fat " sculptures, the petty-bourgeois status symbols such as cars or single-family houses are known show " fatty degeneration " bloated state in a.
In the fall of 2006 he devoted the MUMOK in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, an exhibition. For excitement there among all was a single family home in original size, which was mounted at an angle and runs on top of the MUMOK building. 2010 showed the Kunstmuseum Bonn worm works from the period 2007 to 2009. At the 54th Venice Biennale 2011 worm with " Narrow House " was represented, a model of his home, reduced to a sixth of its size in the longitudinal axis. " Narrow House " was shown in 2010 at the exhibition in Klosterneuburg.
" Humor is a weapon ," Erwin Wurm has said. But he does not see itself as a humorist, his wit he uses to point to the " everyday life from a different perspective ." Thus, his work is supported by a frequently into Satirical continuous droll sense of humor. In this spirit he designed in 2008 "Self-Portrait as a pickle ", which is now owned by the Museum of Modern Art Salzburg.