Wurm, Erwin: SCULPTURES WITH EMBARRASSMENT/ NOLO VIESTOS.

Author: Jaukkuri, Maaretta & Patrik Nyberg eds.
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish/ English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 48
Illustrations: 29 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9 1/2”x 6 1/2”
Weight: 0.00
ISBN: 9515324424
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 5247

Price: $45.00

This exhibition catalogue shows photographs of installations almost always including a human and drawings of the conceptual artist Erwin Wurm from Vienna, Austria (b.1954). A certain dematerialization can be noted in his work over the last few years. There is a transition from the material sculptures of the early 1980s , in which he used materials from his carpenter shop such as wood or metal, to the instruction-based pieces of the second half of the 1990s. He pushed the envelope in order to expand his notions of sculpture, whilst increasingly bridging the gap between art and everyday life. He evokes the questions: ‘When does an object stop being an object? At what point does it become a performance?’