Erwin Wurm: Performative Sculptures

by Alfred Weidinger and Severin Dünser

With the Performative Sculptures, Erwin Wurm gets his hands dirty, attacking models or raw blocks of clay and deforming them by either physical exertion alone or other external means. Afterwards, the artist often casts the abused models in either bronze, aluminium, iron or polyester resin, and then paints them either in color or with an applied patina. Tension arises in the dialogue between the original form of objects and the traces left by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3903153672
• ISBN13: 9783903153677
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 11.4"