“Installation Nation”
Thesis statement May 5, 2008
Erwin Wurm encompasses the meaning of contemporary art through his original style which demonstrates purpose and is at the same time interesting and draws the viewers attention to the work.
Installation May 5, 2008
For my installation piece I plan to work with the idea of political correctness and how it has seemed to have gotten out of hand these days, with everyone being overly sensitive to everything being “politically correct”. I plan to work off of some of the ideas of Erwin Wurm and what he has done with his project, “Instructions on How to be Politically Incorrect”. I plan on using performance and capturing it with photography to be displayed in the show
Erwin Wurm May 4, 2008
Erwin Wurm is an Austria born, self-proclaimed sculptor. He was born in Bruck Austria, and attended school at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts, also in Vienna, between 1979 and 1982, after attending the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria between 1977 and 1979.
Erwin Wurms art deals with experimentation in performance, photography, installation, drawing, video and text, but overall he considers himself to be a sculptor. Between 1981 and present, he has had exhibits in countries all over Europe, as well as in several Asian countries and the United States. He has stated that his art has to do with the icons of our time and our society, which are by nature brash and in-your-face. He wants that his art be generally accessible and he has a desire to convey as much as possible to as many people as possible, reaching more than just an elite circle of insiders. He uses a lot of humor in his work and does not, unlike many, take the art world too seriously.
Erwin Wurm currently works and resides in both Vienna, Austria and New York.
The real question is… April 14, 2008
…to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong? To those who can apply it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialists?
The art of the past should not “belong” to any one group in particular, but instead to any who wish to appreciate its magnificence. The art of the past is a part of history which should be available to those who have a desire to learn from it, teach from it, look at it or use it for other personal purposes. There are those who believe that society has gotten out of hand in its reproduction and commercialization of certain works from the art of the past, and to a degree this may be true, but with the change in time art has also been changing and these reproductions can be looked at as another form of art in themselves. A very big part of history and culture have to do with changes in art, and this can include how the art of the past is utilized in the present, so to restrict this to a group of specialists could be denying many potential changes to the future as well as to history and art itself.
