Erwin Wurm's Avatars in Venice - October 8 to November 13, 2022 - Sale Monumentali of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

Art Calendar, 30 September 2022

Erwin Wurm's Avatars in Venice

October 8 to November 13, 2022

Sale Monumentali of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

Erwin Wurm, Photo credit Nebojša Babić

Düsseldorf, September 30: Parallel to the 59th Biennale di Venezia, Austrian artist Erwin Wurm is exhibiting at the Sale Monumentali of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana directly on St. Mark's Square in Venice. Erwin Wurm, born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur in Styria, is a very well-known international representative of Austrian contemporary art. His oeuvre ranges from material sculpture to action art, video, photography and drawing. He became known for his sculptures fat sculptures, which show petty bourgeois status symbols such as cars, refrigerators or family homes in a "greased" state.

In the exhibition Avatars in Venice Erwin Wurm shows the group of works Skins. Unlike his Fat works, these works are about a reduction of volume. In the sculptures, which are up to 4 meters high, bodies clad in jeans, shirts and sneakers are reproduced. Erwin Wurm: "Two-dimensionality, three-dimensionality, mass, skin, surface, volume; all these are important components of my research on sculpture. Squeezed and flattened or reduced to a very thin form, my new works acquire a certain fragility that I like: they become almost abstract." The exhibition is curated by Manfred Möller and sponsored and organized by the Association for Art in Public Dirk Geuer.

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Düsseldorf, 30. September: Parallel zur 59. Biennale di Venezia stellt der österreichische Künstler Erwin Wurm im Sale Monumentali der Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana direkt am Markusplatz in Venedig aus. Erwin Wurm, 1954 in Bruck an der Mur in der Steiermark geboren, ist ein international sehr bekannter Vertreter der österreichischen Gegenwartskunst. Sein Oeuvre reicht von Materialskulptur über Aktionskunst, Video, Fotografie und Zeichnung. Er wurde bekannt für seine Skulpturen fat sculptures, die kleinbürgerliche Statussymbole wie Autos, Kühlschränke oder Einfamilienhäuser in einem „verfetteten“ Zustand zeigen.

In der Ausstellung Avatare in Venedig zeigt Erwin Wurm die Werkgruppe Skins. Anders als in seinen Fat-Werken geht es in diesen Arbeiten um eine Reduzierung des Volumens. In den bis zu 4 Meter hohen Skulpturen werden mit Jeans, Hemd und Turnschuhen bekleidete Körper wiedergeben. Erwin Wurm: „Zweidimensionalität, Dreidimensionalität, Masse, Haut, Oberfläche, Volumen; all das sind wichtige Bestandteile meiner Forschungen zur Skulptur. Zusammengequetscht und abgeflacht oder reduziert auf eine sehr dünne Form erlangen meine neuen Arbeiten eine gewisse Zerbrechlichkeit, die ich mag: sie werden fast abstrakt.“ Die Ausstellung wird von Manfred Möller kuratiert und von der Association for Art in Public Dirk Geuer gefördert und organisiert.

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About the artist

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm was born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur. From 1974 to 1977 he studied art history and German language and literature at the University of Graz and from 1977 to 1979 art and work education at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. From 1979 to 1982 he attended the University of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts. From 2002 to 2006 he taught as a professor at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies/Art Education and from 2007 to 2010 at the Institute for Visual and Media Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Erwin Wurm's works are in international museums, including the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. At the 54th Venice Art Biennale in 2011, Wurm was represented by Narrow House, a model of his childhood home reduced to one-sixth of its size along its longitudinal axis. Erwin Wurm lives and works in Vienna and New York.

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Der österreichische Künstler Erwin Wurm wurde 1954 in Bruck an der Mur geboren. Von 1974 bis 1977 studierte er Kunstgeschichte und Germanistik an der Universität Graz und von 1977 bis 1979 Kunst- und Werkerziehung an der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Von 1979 bis 1982 besuchte er die Hochschule für angewandte Kunst und die Akademie der bildenden Künste. Von 2002 bis 2006 lehrte er als Professor am Institut für Kunst und Kulturwissenschaften/Kunstpädagogik und von 2007 bis 2010 am Institut für Bildende und Mediale Kunst der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien.

Die Werke von Erwin Wurm befinden sich in internationale Museen, darunter die National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, die Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Wien, das Pariser Centre Pompidou, das Museum Ludwig in Köln, das Kunsthaus Zürich oder das Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Auf der 54. Kunstbiennale in Venedig 2011 war Wurm mit Narrow House vertreten, einem Modell seines Elternhauses, das auf ein Sechstel seiner Größe in der Längsachse reduziert war. Erwin Wurm lebt und arbeitet in Wien und New York.

Erwin Wurm's Avatars in Venice

October 8 to November 13, 2022

Sale Monumentali of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

Access to the exhibition via the Museo Correr

Piazza San Marco n.52 - Ala Napoleonica I - 30124 Venice

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Opening hours: 10.00-18.00 (last admission 17.00)

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