Erwin Wurm: Dissolution

Erwin Wurm: Dissolution
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arnoldsche
Country
Germany
Published
3 September 2021
Pages
64
ISBN
9783897906372

Erwin Wurm: Dissolution

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 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. 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.

Text in English and German.

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