Throughout his career, Erwin Wurm has sought to deconstruct sculpture, expanding its spatial and temporal dimensions as well as exploring questions of weight and volume.
In Skins, the artist takes a new approach, focusing on the notion of surface and its function in holding and defining volume. Featuring his most recent series of sculptures titled Skin, the exhibition also offers an exclusive look at the Flat Sculptures, which represent the artist’s first
on the notion of surface and its function in holding and defining volume. Featuring his most recent series of sculptures titled Skin, the exhibition also offers an exclusive look at the Flat Sculptures, which represent the artist’s first foray into painting.
Two dimensionality, three dimensionality, mass, skin, surface, volume are important parts of my research on sculpture.
Squeezed and flattened or reduced to a very thin form, my new works have a certain fragility, which I like: they become almost abstract.