Erwin Wurm: Dissolution
Softcover | 19.99 x 0.81 x 24.92 cm | 64 pp
Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2021 | 9783897906372
Text in English and German
Wurm’s anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures, their forms oscillating between the ephemeral and the physical, are characterised by performative gestures. They affirm the inherent plasticity of the material clay, recalling the potency of bozzetti, in which artists from the Renaissance onwards were able to give direct expression to their innermost creative ideas.
In Dissolution Wurm sets out in search of a creative process that cannot be completely controlled. “Dissolution” has connotations of disintegration, decay, decomposition, and vanishing boundaries. The sculptures ― with their protruding fingers, hands, lips, mouths, breasts, bellies, noses, and ears ― force their way out of a clay mass.
Softcover | 19.99 x 0.81 x 24.92 cm | 64 pp
Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2021 | 9783897906372
Text in English and German
Wurm’s anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures, their forms oscillating between the ephemeral and the physical, are characterised by performative gestures. They affirm the inherent plasticity of the material clay, recalling the potency of bozzetti, in which artists from the Renaissance onwards were able to give direct expression to their innermost creative ideas.
In Dissolution Wurm sets out in search of a creative process that cannot be completely controlled. “Dissolution” has connotations of disintegration, decay, decomposition, and vanishing boundaries. The sculptures ― with their protruding fingers, hands, lips, mouths, breasts, bellies, noses, and ears ― force their way out of a clay mass.
Description
Softcover | 19.99 x 0.81 x 24.92 cm | 64 pp
Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2021 | 9783897906372
Text in English and German
Wurm’s anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures, their forms oscillating between the ephemeral and the physical, are characterised by performative gestures. They affirm the inherent plasticity of the material clay, recalling the potency of bozzetti, in which artists from the Renaissance onwards were able to give direct expression to their innermost creative ideas.
In Dissolution Wurm sets out in search of a creative process that cannot be completely controlled. “Dissolution” has connotations of disintegration, decay, decomposition, and vanishing boundaries. The sculptures ― with their protruding fingers, hands, lips, mouths, breasts, bellies, noses, and ears ― force their way out of a clay mass.
