until Saturday March 14 2015

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
T : +43 662 881 393
Mirabellplatz 2
5020 Salzburg
Austria

Erwin Wurm has done much to expand the concept of sculpture, and he uses absurd and comic elements of contemporary society – particularly in relation to the human body. In his sculptures and performances, he has repeatedly re-drawn and extended the fragile boundary defining a visible form from inside and outside, fundamentally challenging and questioning the viewer's perception of reality.

The combination of materials in his œuvre creates spaces and allusions that far transcend the relation between viewer and object. In Angst / Lache Hochgebirge, a black chair appears to split open a house; the two objects stand in a specific relationship, developing a network of relationships that takes shape beyond the viewer. Here deformation has taken over a considerable part of the figuration (Erwin Wurm, 2014).