bacc exhibition 789
Erwin Wurm
The Philosophy of Instructions
Organised by BACC Exhibition Department BACC Main sponsor: Thai Beverage Public Company Limited
BACC Project sponsor: Antalis (Thailand) Limited
26 November 2016 - 26 February 2017
Main Gallery, 9th Floor
Opening Ceremony on Friday 25 November 2016 at 18.30 hrs. With the current political and social climate, it marks up the stage of transition not only links with what goes on around the SEA
region but also parts of the world where the contemporaneity is constituted with a shift of systematic of thoughts at present.
Whether it is neo-conservative uprising, progressive evolution, it paves the context for the exhibition to broaden beyond existing
boundaries to reassess current issues at hand in their contemporaneous entirety. With the keywords such as humour, superiority,
irony, mass, and contradiction are some among many, suggested to encourage new thoughts of self in relation to society.
Through the sculptural works of the world famous artist, Erwin Wurm, they offer various depths of philosophy with subliminity
placing audience at his central core to explore a light and humorous side yet critical state of self. The intention of the exhibition
is to present the artworks of the notable artist who has long history in investigating the possibility of art on
the relative planes
of self and the reality in the contemporary society.
Artist: Erwin Wurm
Curator: Pichaya Aime Suphavanij
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ABOUT ARTIST
Erwin Wurm
(b. 1954, Austria)
Erwin Wurm is an Austrian living and working in Vienna and Limberg, Austria. Since the late 1980s,
he has developed an ongoing series of One Minute Sculptures, in which he poses himself or his
models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close
at hand, prompting the viewer to
question the very definition of sculpture. He seeks to use the unique path in creating a
sculpture - a
clear and fast, sometimes humorous form of expression. His works are included in prestigious
collections through
out the world at the Albertina, Vienna; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris;
Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museo d’Arte Moderna di
Bologna; CAC Malaga, Spain; Kunsthaus Zurich; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York; Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis; and Albright-Knox Gallery, New York, among others. The artist lives and
works in
Vienna, Austria.
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