{"title":"Erwin Wurm","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"erwin-wurm-1","title":"Erwin Wurm: Bei Mutti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eViennese artist Erwin Wurm is known for his quirky and compelling art that\u003c\/span\u003e occupies a special place in contemporary art. Since the late 1980s he has explored the boundaries between sculpture, object, and performance. His works have great visual power, are readily accessible, yet raise existential questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eOne Minute Sculptures\u003c\/em\u003e, produced since 1995, invite the viewer's collaboration. With everyday objects like tennis balls, chairs, or cleaning-agent bottles one is meant to assume unusual, bizarre poses and, if following the artist's instructions precisely, become, for a moment, a living sculpture. The artist's instructions take the form of delicate and humorous drawings that are published for the first time in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith illustrations of Wurm's newest sculptural works, the most recent developments in his oeuvre are also highlighted. The roughly 100 large-format illustrations are supplemented by three essays dealing with the most important issues in Wurm's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prestel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37612640534709,"sku":"BK-PRE-EW-001-L","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_7508_a386a498-9037-4544-8a02-6123f3c9d50c.jpg?v=1791722258"},{"product_id":"erwin-wurm-dissolution","title":"Erwin Wurm: Dissolution","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWurm’s anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures, their forms oscillating between the ephemeral and the physical, are characterised 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDissolution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWurm 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arnoldsche Art Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44273759256834,"sku":"BK-AAP-EWDB-001-B","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_7486_bf6662d5-a8eb-41fa-884c-ea27731a9025.jpg?v=1791751660"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/collections\/erwin-wurm.oembed","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}