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Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist best known for his humorous and often absurd sculptures and installations. He was born on 27 July 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1977 to 1982.
Wurm's works often explore the relationship between the body and everyday objects, often using humor to make a point. He is best known for his "One Minute Sculptures" series, in which he photographs people in humorous poses with everyday objects. He has also created a number of large-scale installations, such as his "Fat House" series, in which he creates houses out of large blocks of polystyrene.
Wurm has exhibited widely, including at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has also been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
As of 2021, Erwin Wurm's net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million.
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Lenten veil by Erwin Wurm at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria (2020)
Although the images are slightly humorous, they extend or manipulate reality in ways that can be disturbing. Wurm's work portrays manipulated images of things in everyday life, things that look familiar, but which become distorted. Pieces like Truck, where a truck curves up against the building or Narrow House, a thin, claustrophobic house, take something familiar to all and distort it by enlarging, curving it, or slimming it down. “I will often use humor to seduce people”, admits Wurm. “To get them to move closer, but it’s never very nice when they look closer."
In the Red Hot Chili Peppers 2003 music video "Can't Stop" the members of the band carry out five of Wurm's One Minute Sculptures. At the end of the video, a sign states that Wurm was an inspiration for the video. In a recent iTunes interview, Flea is quoted as saying Wurm's picture of a man with a pencil in his nose was a significant influence on the video (Flea himself appears in the video, at a certain point, with markers in his nostrils, pencils in his ears, and paint pot caps over his eyes). Due to the popularity of the video, Wurm's work also boomed in popularity.
Since the late 1980s, he has developed an ongoing series of One Minute Sculptures, in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand, prompting the viewer to question the very definition of sculpture. He seeks to use the "shortest path" in creating a sculpture—a clear and fast, sometimes humorous, form of expression. As the sculptures are fleeting and meant to be spontaneous and temporary, the images are only captured in photos or on film.
Erwin Wurm (born 1954) is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Austria. He lives and works in Vienna and Limberg, Austria.
Erwin Wurm "shrank" his parents' house to reflect the mentality of Austria during the postwar period; the design of the house is typical of the 1950s, but a fraction as wide. The house is furnished with shrunken furniture. This piece was inspired by Wurm's childhood, since he grew up during the 1950s through 1970s in postwar Austria. Growing up, he lived with his parents; his mother stayed at home and his father was a policeman. Therefore, it was difficult to express himself both at school and at home. This limited view has affected Wurm's philosophy of art strongly, and Narrow House is a physical manifestation of it. When the viewers walk through, they feel the tension and claustrophobia that Wurm experienced on a daily basis as a child.
