In One Day Yes / One Day No, Erwin Wurm invites us to question our own preconceived perspective through new and recent work. With his unmistakable and paradoxical approach to our contemporary society, he gives us the opportunity to perceive reality in a different way. Perhaps even to “sculpt” time and our collective memory of everyday life with a new gaze.
Erwin Wurm (b. 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria) graduated from University of Graz, Austria, in 1977, and University of Applied Art and Academy of Fine Art, Vienna in 1982. lives and works in Vienna and Limberg, Austria. Over the course of his career, Erwin Wurm has radically expanded conceptions of sculpture, questioning its notions of time, mass and surface, abstraction and representation. Erwin Wurm came to prominence with his One Minute Sculptures, began in 1996/1997. In these works, Wurm gives instructions to participants that indicate actions or poses to perform with everyday objects such as chairs, buckets, fruit or sweaters. These sculptures are by nature ephemeral and by incorporating photography and performance into the process Wurm challenges the formal qualities of the medium as well as the boundaries between performance and daily life, spectator and participant.
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Opening Times: Wed-Sun 9am-6pm
