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When \u201cErwin Wurm. Fichte\u201d opens in the great hall of the Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum Wolfsburg on March 22, 2015, a specially created sculpture at the entrance will provide a hint of the specta\u00adcular show awaiting visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Austrian sculptor (b. 1954), inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnally known for his \u201cOne Minute Sculp\u00adtures\u201d, as well as his \u201cfat\u201d and deformed objects, will present a Volks\u00adwagen van in the guise of what he calls a \u201cfat hot dog stand\u201c here in Wolfsburg: the city of motorcars. During luncht\u00adimes throughout the run of the show, \u201cCurry Bus\u201d will sell original VW curry sausages. With his bizarrely shaped cars, houses, and figures, the sculptor conveys his own humorous view of everyday objects and life itself \u2013 a view that can be as distur\u00adbing as it is philosophical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Wurm will turn the great exhibi\u00adtion hall into a German forest. The forest is a symbolic piece of nature. Since the Romantic era its untamed, unspoiled state has repre\u00adsented an alter\u00adna\u00adtive to human civiliz\u00ada\u00adtion. It is a nearby place where people from the city can go to rest and relax, or \u2013 as in fairy tales \u2013 it is a place where the hero is put to the test. Anyone who hears the title Fichte and is reminded of the German idealist philo\u00adso\u00adpher of the same name would not be too far off the mark, as far as Wurm is concerned. Johann Gottlieb Fichte was one of the most important, inspi\u00adra\u00adtional figures of Roman\u00adti\u00adcism: a defender of self-confident indivi\u00addua\u00adlism, and the author of the contro\u00adver\u00adsial \u201cAddresses to the German Nation.\u201d Within this hetero\u00adge\u00adneous frame of reference, the use of more than fifty gigantic, real firs presents a consi\u00adderable sculp\u00adtural challenge due to the fact that the trees must be placed in a specific relati\u00adonship to the exhibi\u00adtion space. At the same time they provide a dialogue and a means of contras\u00adting with more than forty other (mainly new) works of art, sixteen of which have been created especially for the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past 20 years, Wurm has created a consis\u00adtent oeuvre that adds inter\u00adac\u00adtive and social aspects to the concept of sculpture. In a pointed, laconic way, his perfor\u00adma\u00adtive or plastic defor\u00adma\u00adtions are not only about formal consi\u00adde\u00adra\u00adtions, but also about the futility of human effort and the fine line between high and low, norm and deviation. Concep\u00adtually speaking, the title, Fichte, links both the ordinary fir tree and a complex philo\u00adsophy, and thus refers to a kind of dramatic fall that Wurm strives to convey in his artistic trans\u00admis\u00adsions. In the contrast between nature and civiliz\u00ada\u00adtion, interior and exterior, the monumental and the ephemeral, the entire instal\u00adla\u00adtion examines the theme of the relati\u00adonship of the self to the world. Here, the artist addresses issues that have been valid ever since the Romantic era: knowledge, self-assertion, confor\u00admity, and resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the exhibi\u00adtion \u201cErwin Wurm. Fichte\u201d the Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum Wolfsburg is conti\u00adnuing its series of great artistic projects, including \u201cDouglas Gordon. Between Darkness and Light\u201d (2007), \u201cJames Turrell. The Wolfsburg Project\u201d (2009), and most recently, \u201cChristian Boltanski. Bewegt\u201d (2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An artist\u2019s book designed by Erwin Wurm, contai\u00adning photo\u00adgraphs of the instal\u00adla\u00adtion and an essay by the philo\u00adso\u00adpher Markus Gabriel will be published by aga press, Baden-Baden. Approx. 112 pages, 19 \u20ac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibi\u00adtion is supported by Volks\u00adwagen Financial Services AG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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