Erwin Wurm
Das Phantom Projekt
26. September – 16. November 2008

The Kunstverein Arnsberg is pleased to present the exhibition "Phantom Project" by Erwin Wurm.

Erwin Wurm, born in 1954 in Bruck/Mur, Austria, is one of the best-known contemporary artists. For over 25 years, the globally active artist has been working on a multi-layered oeuvre that can be understood as a "continuous research project on the concept of sculpture". He explores the border areas between the different levels of action, performance and sculpture and translates sculpture into the contemporary media world. 

He became known to a broad public through his One Minute Sculptures, as well as through his "Fat" sculptures, in which he thematizes the obsession with thinness and obesity, fashion, advertising and the cult of consumption, whose central fetishes include both the home and the car. These "fat" sculptures play a central role in two of the three videos on show at the Kunstverein. 

His latest work "TELL" consists of a dialog between a young couple. In their conversation, important philosophical and physical positions are trivialized. Erwin Wurm thus analyzes "everyday philosophy" and holds up a mirror to us in a humorous way. 

Erwin Wurm's work is generally characterized by his typical irony, with which he questions generally accepted ideas about our world in order to then impose his very own view on them and challenge the viewer to marvel, laugh or reflect.