ERWIN WURM – Life Beat soft melt
In the organizer's words:
As an artist, Erwin Wurm is characterized by a particularly fine sense of humour and irony. His designs and their realizations now appear countless when it comes to seemingly "banal", "everyday" motifs in his art. Starting with sculptures made of dust and found materials, he soon developed the "One-Minute-Sculptures", which caused a sensation and illustrate his criticism of society and the art world in an ironic twist. Then there are the "sausages", which he humorously and self-critically refers to as self-portraits. His shifts in scale and proportions, his "narrow house", the oversized "cornichons" and his "flat cars" have also become famous.
Erwin Wurm is a master of the ironic visualization of feelings about life. He makes the house of his childhood very narrow: "We were beaten at school. And the fact that we got a spanking and the math teacher put us across the table and hit us with a compass was all normal," says Erwin Wurm. "It was only afterwards that I realized that it wasn't normal. Or at least very special. And then I wanted to work about it. Then I took my parents' house and made it narrow, including the furniture and the rooms. As soon as you go in, you feel claustrophobic and cramped and it really gets to you."
In his wonderfully ambiguous One Minute Sculptures, which are only funny at first glance, Erwin Wurm takes the concept of sculpture literally and deconstructs it in the process; his "Fat Car" and "Fat House" are witty critiques of consumerism and yet are immediately accessible. Wurm fearlessly manipulates and deforms his melancholic-looking protagonists, whose paradoxical actions, grotesque grimaces or strained poses pose fundamental questions about normality, the sense or nonsense of artistic conventions and human action.
For the exhibition at the Ludwig Museum, Erwin Wurm is planning for the first time a wall piece based on his paintings consisting of words as well as a compilation of various "One-Minute-Scupltures" and his multifaceted drawings and watercolors.
The exhibition, curated by Prof. Dr. Beate Reifenscheid (Director of the Ludwig Museum, Koblenz) and Jérôme Sans (Artistic Director, Paris), is sponsored by the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation.
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