What is this form? Where is the body in this funny colorful and asymmetrical package? Where are the bodies in this two-headed quadruped set? How to watch or simply recognize the most banal of gestures in these human sculptures that defy the norm, time, motionless? Erwin Wurm, 65, a very courteous artist who hides his mischief behind the wise glasses of a philosopher's teacher, loves this strange beauty of everyday life that art inadvertently brings out as if it were little ordinary things. This Austrian, so correct and a little stiff, likes humor which is unsettling and which makes it possible to question society, "like a good tool which opens a door" . He inherited from the Dadaists this rebellious desire to overturn the traditional conception of art by means of provocation and derision.
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His One Minute Sculptures , microperformances that offer everyone the opportunity to be a sculpture for a minute, his Fat Cars , plump Fat Houses or his cramped Narrow House have made
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