PRESS RELEASE
ERWIN WURM
27 - 9 / 27 - 10 - 2000
Opening
27 - 9 - 2000,
In
collaboration with the Hellenic Center of Photography
7th
International Month of Photography
Erwin Wurm is
born in 1954 in Bruck (
Recent Exhibitions (selection):
2001 Miro Foundation,
2000
Partage d’exotisme, Lyon Biennal,
Art:
Concept Gallery,
Jack
Hanley Gallery,
1999
CAN
Art Cnter,
Free
Coke,
Let’s
get lost,
Erwin
Wurm is often described as a deconstructor
of the concept of “sculpture” and creator of a new definition of how we
conceive it. Winckelmann’s reception of the grecian antique, symptomatic of a particular
historical interpretation of “sculpture”, may initially appear directly opposed
to Wurm’s work. Yet although his sculptures sever may ties to the conventions of the genre, they are
nonetheless connected, in different ways, with that tradition and continuation.
This has to do with the fact that Wurm’s sculptures
are dependant on time. Strictly speaking, in order to view them correctly, one
must stand next to them.
This
is especially true of this “One Minute Sculpture”, a group of works which Wurm has been involved with for some years. The central
component of most of these sculpture is a person. This
means two different things: that the works requires the presence of an
individual; and that the viewer is equally present as a part of the sculpture.
The serie is so named because, by its very nature,
each work can barely exist for much longer than “one minute” - a very, very
short period of time in history of sculpture(...)
The
pieces are documented in videos, each of which shows the preparation,
rehearsals - including all the unsuccessful attemps -
and then, for an instant the “completed” work (...)
Along
with video, Wurm brings photography into play to
record the instance at which his “One Minute Sculpture” are
accomplished. From their moment of sculptural “ becoming”,
these works appear absurd; their brief instance of possibility becomes an
eternity.
Martin Pesch, Minute Man in
FRIEZE n°52, may 2000.
This
exhibition is the first presentation of Erwin Wurm’s
work in
The gallery is opened tuesday - friday