Misconceivable - Erwin Wurm - Estuaire itinerary

Ever since he discovered sculpture by chance, Erwin Wurm has loved defying the art form’s rules and conventions. With his dramatic sense of humour, Wurm’s work pushes ordinary moments into the realm of the absurd. For the artist both objects and people are subject to the forces of thought. Here, a sailboat bends, as if it were irresistibly pulled by the river. Do objects have a soul? Erwin Wurm answers “Yes!” 

Ewin Wurm’s work invites the spectator to look for art in the movements of daily life and in particular conditions of existance: physical, spiritual, psychological and political. Full of humour, his sculptures tip ordinary moments over into an absurd universe. Obsessed by human capacity to “sculpturally” transform, he applies those human characteristics (thinness, obesity) to social features, like a car or a house. For him, objects, like human, undergo a throught process.