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Erwin Wurm – Fat House - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2019 - 175 Euro Cent

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Erwin Wurm – Fat House - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2019 - 175 Euro Cent


Theme: Architecture
CountryAustria / II. Republic of Austria
Issue Date2019
Face Value175.00 
Colorgreen white
Printing Typeoffset
Stamp TypeCommemorative
Item TypeStamp
SID671262
Dimensions
50.00
 x 
35.00
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“Fat House” is an outstanding sculpture by Erwin Wurm, one of the most successful contemporary sculptors, to whom a stamp in the “Contemporary art in Austria” series is being dedicated. Erwin Wurm was born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, in 1954; today he lives and works in Vienna. Among others, he studied at both the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he was also a professor of sculpture/ plastics and multimedia until 2010. Wurm’s works include sculpture, video art and photography. Nowadays they can be seen in famous museums and exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London. Erwin Wurm added interactive, social and time-based aspects to our understanding of sculpture, developing the concept of “performative sculptures” at the start of the 1990s. Through the process of creation and distortion, consumer goods and everyday items such as clothing, cars, houses and even food are transformed into works of art. The performative procedure leaves behind traces, which transform the original object into the medium of the artistic process. Behind what at first glance appear to be humorous results, lurks a profound social criticism. “I think I’m a piece of art” “Gaining and losing weight is working on volumes. So gaining and losing weight is also sculptural art,” says the artist. Volume, space, weight, expansion are all defining concepts of his art. Alongside the Fat Cars and the Melting Houses, in 2003 he created the Fat House. With its flabby, swollen dimensions, the house appears completely out of whack. On entering, you are welcomed by a video installation in which you see an external view of the house whilst it informs you: “I think I’m a piece of art”. The Fat House is on long-term loan from Vienna’s Belvedere Museum and is on display in Austria’s Sculpture Park in the Universalmuseum Joanneum in the Styrian town of Premstätten, south of Graz. Two additional copies can be seen in the Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan and the West Collection, Philadelphia, USA.

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“Fat House” is an outstanding sculpture by Erwin Wurm, one of the most successful contemporary sculptors, to whom a stamp in the “Contemporary art in Austria” series is being dedicated. Erwin Wurm was born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, in 1954; today he lives and works in Vienna. Among others, he studied at both the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he was also a professor of sculpture/ plastics and multimedia until 2010. Wurm’s works include sculpture, video art and photography. Nowadays they can be seen in famous museums and exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London. Erwin Wurm added interactive, social and time-based aspects to our understanding of sculpture, developing the concept of “performative sculptures” at the start of the 1990s. Through the process of creation and distortion, consumer goods and everyday items such as clothing, cars, houses and even food are transformed into works of art. The performative procedure leaves behind traces, which transform the original object into the medium of the artistic process. Behind what at first glance appear to be humorous results, lurks a profound social criticism. “I think I’m a piece of art” “Gaining and losing weight is working on volumes. So gaining and losing weight is also sculptural art,” says the artist. Volume, space, weight, expansion are all defining concepts of his art. Alongside the Fat Cars and the Melting Houses, in 2003 he created the Fat House. With its flabby, swollen dimensions, the house appears completely out of whack. On entering, you are welcomed by a video installation in which you see an external view of the house whilst it informs you: “I think I’m a piece of art”. The Fat House is on long-term loan from Vienna’s Belvedere Museum and is on display in Austria’s Sculpture Park in the Universalmuseum Joanneum in the Styrian town of Premstätten, south of Graz. Two additional copies can be seen in the Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan and the West Collection, Philadelphia, USA..