Erwin Wurm: Handslungsformen Der Skulptur - Softcover

Damianovic, Maia; Marcel, Christine; Weibel, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775711813 ISBN 13: 9783775711814

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 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

Synopsis:

This volume provides a condensed survey of Erwin Wurm's sculptural works since the early 1990s. In his "One Minute Sculptures" human bodies are combined with objects and postions they can only hold for a few moments, the works then documented through video and photographs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 3775711813
• ISBN 13: 9783775711814
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Weibel Peter