Artist Research: Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm is a contemporary Austrian artist working across several media. Wurm’s comical attitude towards representation features heavily in his Fat Car series, in which ge purposefully disfigures car models deemed status symbols by mass culture. “[For me] humor is primarily a method for getting people’s attention—it should ultimately prompt people to look at things more carefully,” the artist has reflected. Following in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, the artist has contributed his own take on the medium of sculpture with his One Minute Sculptures. In these performances, Wurm invites audience participation and interaction to reevaluate the medium. In the series, viewers are asked to do more than merely look at the museum artworks surrounding them, but to experience the artworks and themselves in new ways. In the form of drawings or brief written directions, the visitor is instructed and encouraged to become an artwork – a 'One Minute Sculpture' – for the duration of sixty seconds.

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I really enjoy the playfulness of Wurm's work, how it requires that the viewer interact with the piece in order for it to be complete. I think that this is a very creative take on the medium and the piece asks the question of what it even is a sculpture?

Art Day 3- Sculpture

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