Erwin Wurm Exhibition
Jack Hanley
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The Jack Hanley Gallery presents a sculptural installation by Erwin Wurm. As the title indicates Wurm’s installation, “Selbstporträt als Gurken” presents a portrait of the artist as uniquely cast and naturalistically painted pickles. Though the exhibition was first conceived in 2008, this is its first appearance in the United States.
In this, Wurm’s fifth exhibition with the Jack Hanley Gallery, the Austrian born artist continues to employ his country’s beloved pickle to explore the discipline of sculpture in a comical yet honestly inquisitive manner. On the most basic level, the individuality of the twenty-six pickles mounted upon white pedestals mock the concept of a singular identity and Realism’s attempt at accurate representation. Less imperative than they at first appear, the shriveled crooked pickles raised at various heights on pristine symmetrical bases sit back and wait for others to draw correlations. The framing of Wurm’s installation as a form of portraiture poses the question(s), what/who are the sculptures/sculptors? Is a sculptor something other, more or less than his/her own sculpture? The viewer, forced to walk in and around the oddly juxtaposed objects, becomes the sculptor of his/her experience and part of the larger sculpture itself. Query abounds but in the end Wurm answers his own questions with a laugh at the self(selves) erected all around.
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Schedule
from October 31, 2010 to December 04, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-10-31 from 18:00 to 21:00