Erwin Wurm *

(born in Bruck/Mur in 1954)
“Hypnosis”, 2008, aluminum, partly polished, numbered on the underside 13/15 (artists edition), ca. 90 x 102 x 55 cm
One example exhibited:
Erwin Wurm. Hypnosis, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, 2008
Erwin Wurm, Trap of the Truth, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton Wakefield, 2023/2024

Illustrated:
Erwin Wurm, DuMont Buchverlag 2009, page 126/127, installation view

Provenance:
Private Collection, Vienna

“Sculpture is about working with volume”
Erwin Wurm

… The occasionally indeterminate protrusions which emerge from the bodies signify an inner compulsion: Protrusions motivated by
psychological or emotional forces.
Wurm accordingly refers to them as “Neid“ (Envy)-
and “Ärgerbeulen” (Anger Lumps); when they appear as autonomous, potato-shaped bodies, he also refers to them as “Mind bubbles.”
Helmut Friedel in Erwin Wurm, DuMont, Cologne 2009