1. Erwin Wurm was born on 1954 and is an Austrian artist.
17 Facts About Erwin Wurm
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Erwin Wurm was born in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, in 1954.
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Erwin Wurm's father was a detective, who did not approve of artists.
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Erwin Wurm's work is often critical of Western society and the mentality and lifestyle of his childhood during post-World War II Austria.
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Erwin Wurm's criticism is playful, but should not be confused with kindness.
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Erwin Wurm represents his criticism of objects, such as clothing, furniture, cars, houses, and everyday objects to his audience.
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Since the late 1980s, Erwin Wurm has developed an ongoing series of One Minute Sculptures, in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand, prompting the viewer to question the very definition of sculpture.
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Erwin Wurm believes the creation of sculpture is adding and subtracting material to an object.
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Erwin Wurm has worked on a series of sculptures titled Fat Car, which depict "puffy, obese, life-size sculptures that bulge like overfilled sacks".
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The first of his Fat Car series was developed with Opel designers, but they were unsuccessful in achieving the kind of shape that Erwin Wurm had in mind due to technical limitations of this time.
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Erwin Wurm has produced a Fat House at nearly full scale.
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In 2021 Erwin Wurm released a 15-second long video called Breathe In, Breathe Out as an NFT via Konig gallery's MISA website based on the FLOW blockchain.
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Erwin Wurm "shrank" his parents' house to reflect the mentality of Austria during the postwar period; the design of the house is typical of the 1950s, but a fraction of the width.
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Erwin Wurm's displayed work From Men's Size 38 to Size 48 in Eight Days are pages from his instruction book that explains Erwin Wurm's daily diet and activities each day in order to increase his body mass tremendously over the week.
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Erwin Wurm believes that gaining or losing weight is a medium of sculptural work.
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Similar to his One Minute Sculptures, Erwin Wurm uses the human body to provide the material to make this sculpture.
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Erwin Wurm is considered to be the first visual artist to receive credits in a music video on MTV.