Erwin Wurm (Born 1954 Bruck an der Mur, Austria) is a pioneering contemporary artist who explores several different mediums and goes beyond their classical concepts. Wurm seems at first to embody a comedic attitude, highly apparent in his Fat Car series, where he intentionally disfigures car models seen as status symbols in modern society. The artist’s production, however, is rather a deeper, humorous critique of our modern, consumer, society; and Wurms gives the viewer who wants to go beyond a first superficial look, the possibility to discover such critique.
 
Wurm started his artistic career studying at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Inspired by the tradition of German artist Joseph Beuys, Wurm has offered his own perspective on sculpture mediums with his ‘One Minute Sculptures’. Wurm invited the audience to participate and interact with his sculptures to assess the medium. 

Wurm’s work has been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and Vienna, as well as the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lyon and the centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Wurm currently resides between Vienna and Limburg, Austria. Today the artist's collections can be seen in The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London among many others.

Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm expands contemporary notions of sculpture with humorous works that often invite viewer participation or anthropomorphize everyday objects.

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Erwin Wurm is widely recognized as a prominent sculptor in contemporary art. Throughout his entire career Wurm has sought to manipulate and deconstruct sculptures, keeping in mind the expansion and exploration of dimensions, weight and volume. Taking a new approach with sculptures, the artist explores his first encounter with flat canvas and painting, thus creating what he names Flat Sculptures. The four Flat Sculptures: Shine, Light, Melt and Wobbly belong to a series of limited edition works, inspired by Wurm drawing from his Skins exhibition, also presenting some Flat Sculptures works. The artist claims to start the process for these sculptures by looking for a fitting word, deconstructing it and redefining it in an abstract process, making it difficult to read, “there is a distance between what is obviously the word and what you see, and you have to fight for it” said Wurm. Available individually or as a set of four. Produced using high-rendered print technology.

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