ERWIN WURM - european dream museo de arte carrillo gil april 30th to 10th august, 2003
Since his first works, between 1988 & 1990, Wurm has raised a program using drawings, photograph and video. Most of his drawings are instructions to make inside the context of the famous series “one minute sculpture”, which also are used as performances material. Pieces like Me/Me Fat (1998) & Fat Car (2001) are exposed as an ironic critic to society, with artificial images of an obese man and an inflated car, criticizing the system of social commercial values imposed by the publicity, demanding thin bodies and simultaneously pushing the consumer to an uncontrolled consume. Singular would be the word to describe Erwin Wurm´s work due to the way he articulates different practices –based on an image- around a sculptural notion, including a third actor in the process. European Dream makes reference to the already known American dream, its life style and also its coincidences with the current (present) European Economic Union.. fig.: One minute sculptures/ 1997, Atelier Erwin Wurm, MACG. more culture>>>