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Erwin Wurm
September 13 - October 19, 2002
Vedanta Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition
of Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. Wurm is well known for his
ongoing series titled One Minute Sculptures in which combinations
of everyday objects, often incorporating the human figure,
are arranged into impossible structures whose fragile, and
often painful state can’t possibly exist for more than a minute
in time. Revolutionizing the way one physically looks at sculpture
and also how one defines the medium, Wurm uses photography
to capture the fleeting life of his creations.
This exhibition will consist of several variations of One
Minute Sculptures. Erwin Wurm's preoccupation with the body
and its relationship to its surroundings has merged into a
series of self-portraits titled Instructions for Idleness.
The exhibition will include 21 photographs of the artist engaged
in unproductive and sometimes defeatist situations such as
staying in his pajamas all day, or eating with his mouth wide
open. The photographs are accompanied with written subtitles
such as "smoke a joint before breakfast", "watch
TV all day long" or "don't care about anything".
The words transform the human body (the artist himself) in
a similar way the body was transformed by juxtapositions with
everyday objects. Also exhibited will be several photographs
which are collaborations with the artist Sylvie Fleury and
a site specific installation in the project room.
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Erwin Wurm was born in 1954 and lives and works in Vienna.
He has exhibited in many important exhibitions around the
world. Most recently he had solo exhibitions at the Centre
National de la Photographie in Paris, Museo d’Arte Moderna
in Bologna, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Drawing Center in NY,
and Galerie Ursula Krinzinger in Vienna. Selected group exhibitions
include the Museum of Modern Art NY, Biennale Venecia Scuola
di San Zaccharia, Museum of Contemporary Art Massachussetts,
5th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, and the Biennale Taipei.
Images:
Zitrone, 2002
c-print
77" x 50"
Instructions for Idleness, 2000
c-prints on aluminum
65 x 43 cm
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