Erwin Wurm: Austrian photographer and sculptor

Edwin Wurm (b. 1954, Vienna) is rad. He creates in the lines between the quotidian and 'art' and provides a commentary on art's dependence on social qualification (it's art when everyone says it's art). Wurm isolates, catalogues and makes beautiful the small performances of the every day: weight gain and weight loss, cheap, homogenous housing, political correctness, beauty products, long horrible dates, unobjectionable sex etc. Wurm makes you realise that whole lives are spent following social mores, erring on the side of caution, participating in intellectual snobbery, forgetting the beautiful and having no fun; and makes you want to scream, not mine! Of Wurm's coolest are his One Minute Sculptures: developed spaces that give people instructions as to how to become the sculptures themselves and that question the stationarity assumption of sculpture. He has also made scale sculptures of a Fat Car and Fat House which are a hilarious commentary on society's obsession with appearance and weight. Simply delightful.

An interview with Wurm can be accessed: here. Butter your popcorn.

Instructions on How to Be Politically Incorrect, 2003.

(Looking for a bomb)

(Looking for a bomb)

(Spit in someone's soup)

(Inspection)

(Two ways of carrying a bomb)