Mind Bubbles
<em>Mind Bubbles </em>is a project designed as an installation for the entrance hall of the head office of the Volksbank Wien, a building by the german architect Carsten Roth.The sculptures seem to be suspended in the air, as if a device had frozen them: a process that inflates, distorts, makes things bigger and smaller, creates unexpected shapes and new realities that become an inspiration for our everyday life. The reasons why the project remained unrealized haven’t been specified by the artist. <br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2363/1/Wurm_mind%20bubbles.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.
Wurm, Erwin
2008
Rossi, Valentina
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<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2363" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2363</a>
St. Pancras Truck
This sculpture was thought for St. Pancras station, located in northern London; the building dates back to 1861 and its victorian character contributes to frame this work as unreal, even if the artist through his works wants to communicate much more than that and goes beyond this “fantastic” dimension to reach a much deeper reflection on the de-functioning of the object, gazing at reality from a different perspective. The twisting of the vehicle is always part of this techniques of distortion of perception that Wurm adopts almost to create an epiphany of the object itself, a new life and a new meaning. The project was commissioned by St. Pancras train station, but has never been realized. The artist declared that “the truck was planned with a maximum length of 10m, the Commission found that too small, it should have been 20m!”. <br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2361/1/Wurm_st.pancras%20truck.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.
Wurm, Erwin
2012
Rossi, Valentina
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<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2361" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2361</a>
Venus
The Venus project was studied for the Patscherkofel mountain, which is part of the Tux Alps – near Innsbruck, Austria, and consists in a proposal for positioning a classic wooden table of dimensions of 100x120x76 cm, but actually made in bronze, alongside a dish made of bronze and glossy, coated aluminum, and one knödel, a typical Austrian dish, realized in paginated white bronze. he work is conceived according to the almost theatrical setting,the sculpture creates a kind of suspension between the real and the unreal caused by the decontextualization conceived by the artist. <br />The possible commissioners and the reasons why the project remained unrealized haven’t been specified by the artist. <br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2332/1/Wurm_Venus.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.
Wurm, Erwin
2007
Rossi, Valentina
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<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2332</a>
Forum Vogelsang Banana
This project started as a cooperation with Coop Himmelb(l)au: the idea was to fill up the consisting building of the so called Adlerhof with reinforced concrete and build new rooms within the huge banana, that should be arranged above that “Sarkophag”. The criticism in this project lies exactly in the relationship with the context and with the place itself: Vogelsang, indeed, once called Ordernsburg, was built from 1934 to 1936, as a former training institution for young party members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP). The artist himself underlined the historical references, which are also summarised at the <a href="http://www.vogelsang-ip.de/nextshopcms/show.asp?lang=en&e1=902&ssid=1&mdocid=803" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official page</a>. Erwin Wurm declared that the project has been officially refused for formal reasons.<br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2331/1/Wurm_Forum%20Vogelsang.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.
Wurm, Erwin
Coop Himmelb(l)au
2008
Rossi, Valentina
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<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2331" target="_self">http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2331</a>
Karlsruhe Boat
Karlsruhe Boat is a project for the main venue in the German city of EnBW, a society dealing with and trading energy, and consists of a real size boat – situated in a small fountain-like pool of water indoor – that paradoxically deforms itself climbing up on the wall of the building. Even this sculpture creates a decompensation of perception, which is typical of the Austrian artist, where an object totally defunctionalized subverts its normal role and does something ironic and totally out of the ordinary logic. In this case the boat stands on a small and thin layer of water, placed almost vertically to the floor itself, and magically folds, almost crashing against the wall, in a process of deformation that we can find in some important series of the artist’s work. This “absurd” situation reflects a kind of broken up narrative that is typical of the way the artist operates; his works seem to tell a story that suddenly stops and whose ending is left to the interpretation of the viewer. Instead of the classic final apotheosis of the happy ending, for Wurm’s project we could talk about the apotheosis of paradox; the end is certainly not dictated by the victory of good over evil but rather an event that subverts the rules of the classic interpretation of the user. The artist is giving us a different interpretation of reality, that subverts the traditional forms of sculpture and perception. The reasons why the project remained unrealized aren't specified. <br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2330/1/Wurm_Karlsruhe%20Boat.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.
Wurm, Erwin
2008
Rossi, Valentina
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<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2330" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2330</a>
Big Suit Departing
Big Suit Departing was conceived for the Berlin Schönefeld airport; the project consisted in the realization of a giant figure – 10 x 3,5 mt – hanging inside the airport hall with a 50% slope. The “dummy” has neither head nor limbs, it is totally hollow so that the passengers can see through it; the realization is really realistic, with details such as buttons, eyelets and fabric rendered in every detail. This characteristic is typical of Erwin Wurm’s works, that partially distort the reality we live in. This sort of “monument” is not intended to celebrate the common man, but, as in all Wurm’s work, it aims at glorifying an exorcism of the everyday life, a praise of a different reality, of visionary and distorted perceptions. Erwin Wurm says that the project remained unrealized because: “The commission found a human suit not sufficiently representative enough for an international airport.” <br /><a href="https://www.repository.unipr.it/bitstream/1889/2327/1/Wurm_big%20suit%20departing.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read more</a>.
Wurm, Erwin
2010
Rossi, Valentina
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<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2327" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://hdl.handle.net/1889/2327</a>