Concept of the Artist

Erwin Wurm is a contemporary Austrian artist working across media with a critical approach to visualizing present-day life. Often featuring comic or absurdist elements in his mix of sculpture, painting, performance, video, and photography, the artist acknowledges that ?[for me] humor is primarily a method for getting people?s attention?it should ultimately prompt people to look at things more carefully,? and places the viewer?s engagement as the most important ingredient in his art. Born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, Wurm follows in the tradition of Joseph Beuys with ideas around ?social sculpture? with his popular One Minute Sculptures series of short performance pieces, inviting audience participation and interaction in a manner similar to Ernesto Neto?s immersive installations. Currently living and working between Vienna and Limburg, Austria, Wurm studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, broadening his ideas of what materiality in the discipline could be. His works have been shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and Vienna, the Mus?e d?Art Contemporain in Lyon, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Source :http://www.artnet.com/artists/erwin-wurm/

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