Erwin Wurm: Dissolution
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Erwin Wurm: Dissolution
W034867 | $50.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
MAK-Expositur Geymullerschlossel, Vienna, 2021. Organized and published by MAK-Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna.
64 pp. 27 col. ills. 25 x 20 cm. Bilingual in English and German. Paperbound.
ISBN 9783897906372
Gestural sculptures formed in ceramics are the focus of Erwin Wurm: Dissolution. Wurm’s anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures, their forms oscillating between the ephemeral and the physical, are characterized by performative gestures. They affirm the inherent plasticity of the material clay, recalling the potency of bozzetti, in which artists from the Renaissance onwards were able to give direct expression to their innermost creative ideas. In Dissolution (2018–2020), Wurm sets out in search of a creative process that cannot be completely controlled. “Dissolution” has connotations of disintegration, decay, decomposition, and vanishing boundaries. The sculptures — with their protruding fingers, hands, lips, mouths, breasts, bellies, noses, and ears — force their way out of a clay mass.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Austria -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Ceramics ; Sculpture --
Artist(s): Wurm, Erwin
W034867 | $50.00 / 10% library disc.
Exhibition Catalog
MAK-Expositur Geymullerschlossel, Vienna, 2021. Organized and published by MAK-Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna.
64 pp. 27 col. ills. 25 x 20 cm. Bilingual in English and German. Paperbound.
ISBN 9783897906372
Gestural sculptures formed in ceramics are the focus of Erwin Wurm: Dissolution. Wurm’s anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures, their forms oscillating between the ephemeral and the physical, are characterized by performative gestures. They affirm the inherent plasticity of the material clay, recalling the potency of bozzetti, in which artists from the Renaissance onwards were able to give direct expression to their innermost creative ideas. In Dissolution (2018–2020), Wurm sets out in search of a creative process that cannot be completely controlled. “Dissolution” has connotations of disintegration, decay, decomposition, and vanishing boundaries. The sculptures — with their protruding fingers, hands, lips, mouths, breasts, bellies, noses, and ears — force their way out of a clay mass.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Austria -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 ; Post-1990 ; Post-2000 -- Ceramics ; Sculpture --
Artist(s): Wurm, Erwin
