Wurm, Erwin

Erwin Wurm was born in 1954 in the city of Brook an der Moore , Austria . He studied art history at the University of Graz in 1974 - 1977 , as well as art and crafts (sculpture) at the College of Fine Arts in Salzburg in 1977 - 1979 . In 1979 - 1981, he continued to study sculpture at the College of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1995, Wurm was a visiting professor of sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Paris , and from 1996-1997 , a visiting professor at the College of Industrial and Art Design in Linz . In 1993 - 1999, the artist was a member of the board of directors of Vienna Secession, from 1995 - vice president. Erwin Wurm has been the curator of numerous exhibitions, lives and works in Vienna and New York .

• In the 1990s, Erwin Wurm created a series of “One Minute Sculptures”, which are the artist’s original find. In these sculptures, which exist in reality for a short period of time and are exhibited in the form of photographs or videos, the artist and his models enter into unexpected relationships with everyday objects. A person balances on a mop or chair, takes complex poses in shapeless clothes. The human body becomes a part of the sculpture, the line between performance and sculpture is erased.
• Erwin Wurm, as a sculptor, creates more familiar “material” objects. His "inflatable" houses, bent and deformed cars and figures of people - the artist is engaged in the deconstruction of volume and material. In the artist’s work, one can trace the criticism of the consumer society (houses and cars “swam with fat”, a person who swallowed the globe), the irony about antiglobalism (series “in search of a bomb”).
• In the late 1980s, the artist experimented with everyday items of clothing that he used to create sculptures. Erwin Wurm then began creating “Dusty Sculptures” and videos.

• erwinwurm.at - Erwin Wurm
• Works and information about the artist on the Xavier Hufkens Gallery website
• Works and information about the artist on Artnet
• Galerie Krinzinger - Erwin Wurm
• MCA Sydney, Australia - Erwin Wurm
• Erwin Wurm: Greatest Human Being Who Ever Lived

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• Announcement of the exhibition at the Central House of Artists and brief information about the artist (inaccessible link)