Selection
Case (Flat Sculptures)
Erwin Wurm2024.01.31 ~ 2024.04.30
Description of the work
- Media Oil on Canvas
- Location SIGNIEL SEOUL Salon de SIGNIEL 79F
Erwin Wurm’s Flat Sculptures, which he began in 2021, marks the latest evolution in the artist’s experiments with sculpture’s formal qualities. In this series Wurm takes the idea of flattening volume to an extreme, creating “flat sculptures” with paint on canvas. For each composition he selects a single word relating to other series or sculptural concerns (such as “Viel,” “Case,”or “Body”) and expands it to fill the entire picture plane, ballooning and distorting the text almost past recognition. Rendered in pastel pink, light blue, or electric chartreuse—all signature colors in Wurm’s palette—the paintings navigate a narrow border between representation and abstraction, reflecting Wurm’s recent interest in moving away from figuration.
About the author
Best known for his iconic, participatory One Minute Sculptures, Wurm has examined the fundamental tenets of the medium for over 25 years. Confronting expectations about what sculpture can or should be, the artist explores intriguing new possibilities for the medium through investigations into volume, mass, surface, color, and time.
His solo exhibition, Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth, is ongoing in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Engalnd and recent solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2023); Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, South Korea (2022), and others.
Wurm’s work is in numerous international public and private collections, including the Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and, in 2013, he was awarded Grand Austrian State Prize.
His solo exhibition, Erwin Wurm: Trap of the Truth, is ongoing in Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Engalnd and recent solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2023); Suwon Museum of Art, Suwon, South Korea (2022), and others.
Wurm’s work is in numerous international public and private collections, including the Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and, in 2013, he was awarded Grand Austrian State Prize.
Erwin Wurm (1954-, Austrian)
Honorary degree university Of Belgrade, Serbia
University of Applied Art and Academy of Fine Art, Vienna
University of Graz, Austria
University of Applied Art and Academy of Fine Art, Vienna
University of Graz, Austria
