A new object enters the society of little beings. He looks like a brute...
Sculptural objects: These sculptures have become objects in their own right. Everyday materials have been taken out of their normal context and put together in a different way to create a new and unique object that can be seen and touched. Because the objects are unique they become their own entity i.e. they have a life of their own, away from the artist. They occupy their own space and will have an independant existance i.e. they will be viewed, touched and judged in their own right. Viewing is subjective and they will evoke different opinions/feelings which will be individual to the viewer.
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Erwin Wurm: Cahors outdoor sculpture, 1999
From the 2001 Collection
The person in conjuntion with the wall becomes an inanimate object; the person seems to have lost his humanness. The wall and the human body have been connected, which creates a new object; i.e. the wall on its own seems unremarkable, and the human body on its own seems pretty normal and unremarkable, but when they are joined together in this way a new object is created a new curiosity. We are not used to seeing the human body or wall in this context, so two ordinary things have been put together to create a unique object.
Artist Erwin Wurm uses the human body in conjunction with other objects to create sculpture.
3 comments:
Im not sure if the person wants to be part of the object - they look very sad!
Are they still there? Do you think they want some help?
Know what you mean though! The wall and the person do start to form a unit - an unuaual at that!
Love the image!
Sarah
Hi Sarah
Yeah, I agree he does look a bit sad - I think it is the perverse element that draws me.
G x
I struggled whether to write this under object or relationship - perhaps it is more apt to relationship but here we are: when we were in Croatia we went to a talk by an artist called Felix Baltzer who studied under Tony Cragg at Dusseldorf. Like your frustration with the internet as you said on Giles' Blogg, I haven't managed to find anything decent on him, and especially not in English. Only a couple of pics, which weren't the ones that made me think of you. In his early work he used a very strange system for making his sculptures - hamsters! He would place foam blocks in the bottom of cages, add the hamsters who would transform the insides into a series of networked tunnels and living spaces. He then removed them, and cast the spaces, so ending up with a negative of the hamsters homes - a solid negative space. They reminded me so much of you - I couldnt say why; possibly because of the playfulness! In appearance the final sculptures looked something like many legged creatures or possibly coral, but then again not really representing anything. Quite ambiguous - was that origionally one of your words?!
Bizarrely, according to Baltzer, in an exhibition in Japan, the artist bought a Japanese hamster, which was shown, in a new cage, alongside its collaboative piece - and one visitor realised their creation had an uncanny resemblance to a Japanese letter!
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