LOT DETAILS

Materials:

glass (colorless)

Size Notes:

height

Edition:

AP, 1 of 3

Markings:

signed 'E. Wurm' on the base as well as numbered 'AP 1/3 2016'

Provenance:

Private Collection, Vienna, You once complained that “a lot of people misunderstand my work”�., “They think it”��s about the body or this object or that, but no, it”��s primarily about the circumstances.”� How much are you bothered by the fact that many people think that your art is funny?, It annoys me when people look at the work in an abridged form. I am definitely aware that my art is very accessible. You walk into a museum, you see a fat car and you think “haha, that”��s funny”�. Unfortunately, lots of people don”��t go beyond this first impulse. However, criticism in the form of humour is much more subversive than criticism that”��s laid on thick. As Markus Gabriel wrote: “In our late-capitalist democratic society, it is not tragedy but comedy that is the appropriate form of ideological criticism.”� I”��d agree., Erwin Wurm interviewed by Tobias Haberl, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, 18 November 2016