Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, 09 June – 30 September 2018
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, 21 November 2018 – 10 February 2019
Exhibition curated by Eveline Suter
Erwin Wurm draws almost every day, when he is at home or on the road. He works with easily available paper in various qualities and formats. Peace & Plenty (also the name of the hotel on the Bahamas where many of the drawings were done) refers both to the situation and to the sheer amount of the drawings. Over the past three years Erwin Wurm has done about 700 works on paper, in pencil, crayon, ballpoint-pen or as watercolours and collages. These drawings are reflections, commentaries on the world, storehouses of ideas, thus encompassing his entire creative cosmos.
Thematically, they are not unlike a diary, with his self-portraits being interspersed above all with images of the people with whom Wurm comes into contact, including artist-friends as well as members of his family. Furthermore, his works on paper also deal with well-known personalities from politics, art history, and cultural history in general. But despite their great thematic and technical diversity, all of Erwin Wurm’s drawings have in common his bitingly humorous view of the world and its human inhabitants, complete with all their inadequacies, as well as his keen sense of situational comedy and precarious moments.
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