...the pieces in [Wurm's] latest show, Lost, appear as thought your living-room furniture took a nightmarish turn for the worse.
Wurm modeled all of the objects in clay before distorting their form by stomping, smashing, or walking on them (the latter method can be seen clearly in the footprints on the torn-up chaise lounge). Wurm then cast the deformed pieces in bronze or polyester and painted [them].
— Fast Co Design
A few pieces from the show:
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Oh, Erwin...<sigh> is there nothing you do that doesn't make me laugh?
Actually, though, these furniture pieces are only OK. The Fat Cars are his best work, IMO.
He also recently screened a video here at IMA that ended in a fantastic parking job. He's a really good artist.
Crack house chic? The car has context, the furniture is just stupid.
Yeah, I also like Gaetano Pesce's acid trip furniture better.
I'd hyperbolically kill or die for one of his Broadway chairs.
like a beat up rachel whiteread
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