(born in Bruck an der Mur in 1954)
‘Home’, 2006, unique piece, there are 2 versions, Acryl, Farbe, ca. 105 x 105 x 283 cm (K)

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Published:
Erwin Wurm, The artist who swallowed the world, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Hatje Cantz 2006, ill. page 166/167
Erwin Wurm, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2009, ill. p. 14/15
Erwin Wurm, Fichte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, aga press Baden-Baden, 2015, ill. Kunstforum International, vol. 235, August-September 2015, ill. page 261

Exhibited:
2006 Take a walk on the wild side, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich (curated by Jérome Sans, Olivier Vrankenne)
Home, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris 2007
Das lächerliche Leben eines ernsten Mannes, das ernste Leben eines lächerlichen Mannes, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
2010 Angst, Galleria Gentili, Prato, Italy (curated by Helmut Friedel)
2014 Little Nemo, Galerie Elisabeth und Klaus Thoman, Vienna (curated by Max Hallein)
2015 Erwin Wurm, Fichte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Provenance:
Private Collection, Austria

‘Every contrast between essence and its manifestation, an end and its means, may become ridiculous - a contradiction through which a phenomenon sublates itself and the end deprives itself of its goal in its realisation. With regard to the comical, however, we must make a more profound claim. (...)
For the comical includes an infinite good mood and the confidence to be completely above one’s own contradiction without being bitter or sad, the bliss and snugness of subjectivity, which, in its self-confidence, can endure the dissolution of its ends and realisations. The rigid intellect is least capable of this precisely when in its behaviour it becomes most ridiculous to others.’ From: Erwin Wurm, Fichte- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Vorlesungen über Ästhetik III, Frankfurt/Main 1993, p. 527f.