In Erwin Wurm’s first UK museum show, ‘Trap of the Truth’, the artist transforms Yorkshire Sculpture Park into a slightly warped wonderland (10 June 2023 – 28 April 2024)
have become a cabinet of pop-coloured curiosities for Erwin Wurm’s first UK museum show.
The Austrian artist is known for shattering the rules of sculpture. Turning familiar objects on their heads with bizarre interventions furniture, warped buildings and anthropomorphic hot water bottles) – Wurm mines ideas from all that surrounds us, and bends those truths into full-blown fantasy. Aptly, the exhibition’s title, ‘Trap of the Truth’, refers to the work of 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes, who set out to interrogate the subjectivity of truth.
Laden with humour and with frequent nods to the dominance of commodity culture, as well as his Austria’s cultural identity , Wurm’s new Yorkshire Sculpture Park show will feature more than 100 works , including 55 sculptures indoors, 19 sculptures in the landscape, paintings, photographs, videos and drawings created over the artist’s 30-year career. Among the works on show will be Wurm’s
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