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Erwin Wurm

(Austrian, born 1954)
Erwin Wurm is a contemporary Austrian artist working across several media. Wurm’s comical attitude towards representation features heavily in his Fat Car series, in which ge purposefully disfigures car models deemed status symbols by mass culture. “[For me] humor is primarily a method for getting people’s attention—it should ultimately prompt people to look at things more carefully,” the artist has reflected. Born on July 27, 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria, Wurm  went on to study at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Following in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, the artist has contributed his own take on the medium of sculpture with his One Minute Sculptures. In these performances, Wurm invites...