Erwin Wurm

The Museo Fortuny presents the work of the Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm for the first time in Italy with a major monographic exhibition.

Born in 1954 at Bruck an der Mur, in the course of his career, Wurm has radically expanded the concept of sculpture, questioning notions of time, mass and surface, abstraction and representation. For many decades he has been using clothes to deal with sculptural issues. On this journey, his path has frequently crossed that of Mariano and Henriette Fortuny. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts and the School of Applied Arts in Vienna in the late 1970s and ’80s, his One Minute Sculptures, begun in 1996-97, brought Wurm great international success. In them, the artist provides observers with instructions that indicate actions or poses to be performed with everyday objects, such as chairs, buckets, fruit, sweaters… These sculptures are ephemeral by nature, and this has led Wurm to challenge the formal qualities of different visual languages by superseding the boundaries between art and everyday life, viewer and participant.

What to expect:
Sculpture