{"id":46190,"date":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/archivos\/46190"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:34:54","slug":"la-escultura-segun-wurm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/la-escultura-segun-wurm\/","title":{"rendered":"La escultura seg\u00fan Wurm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Autor:<\/strong> P\u00eda Jard\u00ed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revista:<\/strong> L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 215<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Si se puede definir el humor como algo capaz de poner en cuesti\u00f3n lo establecido  y reflejarnos lo absurdo evidente de nuestra realidad, algo capaz de cambiar la  hiperseriedad de nuestras actitudes para hacernos llegar, con ello, a la verdadera  madurez del razonamiento, no puede negarse entonces el sentido del humor que,  inteligentemente planteado, caracteriza el trabajo del artista austr\u00edaco  Erwin Wurm.<\/p>\n<p>La obra de Wurm (Bruck\/Mur, 1954) ha sido definida en ocasiones como conceptual,<br \/>\nrelacion\u00e1ndola con diferentes lenguajes alternativos, debido quiz\u00e1s<br \/>\na la variedad de medios que este artista utiliza (v\u00eddeo, fotograf\u00eda,<br \/>\naccionismo), as\u00ed como a la peculiaridad de algunos de los materiales a<br \/>\nlos que recurre (desde bol\u00edgrafos o pepinillos hasta ropa usada). Sin embargo,<br \/>\nun an\u00e1lisis detallado de su trabajo nos desvela una obra de car\u00e1cter<br \/>\neminentemente escult\u00f3rico \u2013en su mayor parte\u2013 y que se define<br \/>\npor una serie de \u201ccategor\u00edas\u201d siempre presentes, planteadas<br \/>\nno de manera aislada, sino correspondi\u00e9ndose entre s\u00ed cual una red<br \/>\nde causa-efecto-causa. <\/p>\n<p>La dial\u00e9ctica entre vac\u00edo y materia, las posibilidades intr\u00ednsecas<br \/>\nde los materiales, el di\u00e1logo entre escultura y objeto no escult\u00f3rico,<br \/>\nel cuerpo como soporte y la idea de transformaci\u00f3n; estas \u201ccategor\u00edas\u201d<br \/>\nescult\u00f3ricas est\u00e1n pr\u00e1cticamente siempre presentes en la<br \/>\nvariada obra de Erwin Wurm, aunque la finalidad de su planteamiento sea la de<br \/>\nllevar al l\u00edmite sus significados y poner en cuesti\u00f3n la \u201ccategor\u00eda\u201d<br \/>\nmisma \u2013\u00bfla m\u00e1s esencial?\u2013 que define la escultura como<br \/>\nlenguaje art\u00edstico cl\u00e1sico: su propia perdurabilidad.<\/p>\n<p>Desde finales de los a\u00f1os ochenta, Wurm ha producido obras a partir de<br \/>\nlas trazas de polvo marcadas por el contorno de objetos que un d\u00eda ocuparon<br \/>\naquel lugar ahora vac\u00edo. Lo intangible toma forma, mostr\u00e1ndonos<br \/>\nla existencia de unos objetos a partir de su ausencia. As\u00ed, la dial\u00e9ctica<br \/>\nentre materia y vac\u00edo \u2013que aqu\u00ed se transforma en la de presencia<br \/>\ny ausencia\u2013 se corresponde con las posibilidades intr\u00ednsecas de un<br \/>\nmaterial tan poco \u201cescult\u00f3rico\u201d como las part\u00edculas<br \/>\nde polvo; un material que, a su vez, estimula muchas asociaciones y procesos mentales.<br \/>\nLos restos de polvo, tal como la ceniza que queda del fuego, nos muestran lo que<br \/>\nfue y aunque los asociamos a la suciedad, tambi\u00e9n los relacionamos con<br \/>\nalgo vivo. La as\u00e9ptica limpieza, en cambio, la asociamos a lo extinto,<br \/>\na aquello sin vida. <\/p>\n<p>Un elemento muy interesante que Wurm hace entrar en juego en esa serie de trabajos<br \/>\nes la vitrina \u2013que nos remite al rol establecido de las instituciones art\u00edsticas\u2013,<br \/>\ncomo algo que protege el objeto pero tambi\u00e9n que determina lo que es digno<br \/>\nde ser visto y, finalmente, lo que es, o no es, arte. Todo ello, planteado en<br \/>\nun gesto tan transgresor como cargado de iron\u00eda: el de escenificar la misma<br \/>\nausencia.<\/p>\n<p>Una de las series m\u00e1s conocidas de Erwin Wurm es Gegenst\u00e4nde (1988-2004):<br \/>\nprendas de ropa, con los detalles evidentes que las caracterizan \u2013ojales,<br \/>\nsolapas, bolsillos\u2013, que, en lugar de mostrar su textura normal, que puede<br \/>\ndoblarse, se han transformado en objetos duros, r\u00edgidos, cambiando de forma<br \/>\nabsoluta y sorprendente la percepci\u00f3n que tendr\u00edamos de estas mismas<br \/>\nprendas si su materialidad fuera la \u201cnormal\u201d. Lo conocido, por pr\u00f3ximo<br \/>\ny cotidiano, de una prenda de vestir se convierte aqu\u00ed en algo extra\u00f1o,<br \/>\nimpropio, alejado de nuestro entorno, que provoca, a la vez que cierto desasosiego,<br \/>\nuna sonrisa inevitable ante su extravagancia. <\/p>\n<p>Esta p\u00e9rdida de rol de unas ropas que ya no visten al cuerpo humano, sino<br \/>\nque crean otras formas, otros cuerpos si se quiere, es lo que de alguna manera<br \/>\nse constata en la acci\u00f3n registrada en el v\u00eddeo 59 Positions (59<br \/>\nPosturas, 1992), en el que Wurm contin\u00faa explorando las constantes escult\u00f3ricas<br \/>\nque definen su obra. Junto al empleo peculiar de un material no escult\u00f3rico<br \/>\ncomo la ropa, tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 presente la idea de la transformaci\u00f3n,<br \/>\nya que esta propuesta se basa en el propio proceso. Vemos aqu\u00ed bultos antropom\u00f3rficos<br \/>\nque esconden cuerpos agachados o tumbados en el suelo, enfundados literalmente<br \/>\nen unas ropas que les limitan y que posibilitan a la vez sus diferentes posturas.<br \/>\nAlgo de entra\u00f1able define a esta especie de esculturas vivientes, que contrasta<br \/>\ncon lo grotesco de sus contorsiones y movimientos. <\/p>\n<p>Podemos vincular a estas obras las series de fotograf\u00edas que muestran a<br \/>\nla misma persona en su estado \u201cnormal\u201d y tambi\u00e9n engordada-transformada<br \/>\npor el uso de prendas de ropa superpuestas, como en la pieza Me, Me, Fat (Yo,<br \/>\nyo, gordo, 1993). Igualmente, en el v\u00eddeo Face (a Thousand Portraits) [Cara<br \/>\n(mil retratos), 1993-94], se registra un rostro que cada pocos segundos cambia<br \/>\nde gesto, de expresi\u00f3n, perdiendo as\u00ed cualquier trazo de personalidad<br \/>\npropia e identificable. Estos trabajos tienen en com\u00fan el uso del cuerpo<br \/>\nhumano, aunque nunca con una finalidad de introspecci\u00f3n psicoanal\u00edtica,<br \/>\ncomo pudiera pensarse en un primer momento. En la obra de Wurm, el cuerpo es un<br \/>\nmedio, quiz\u00e1s la herramienta expresiva m\u00e1s accesible, pero es tambi\u00e9n,<br \/>\nsobre todo, un soporte que representa la condici\u00f3n de lo perecedero y transitorio,<br \/>\ny estos son dos conceptos fundamentales para entender su obra. (Adem\u00e1s,<br \/>\nigual que \u201cengorda\u201d a personas, Wurm engorda objetos: casas o coches<br \/>\nse muestran como hinchados, sali\u00e9ndose sus contornos de sus propios l\u00edmites,<br \/>\ncomo sucede en Fat Car, (Coche gordo, 2001-2004), o en Little Big House (Peque\u00f1a<br \/>\ngran casa, 2003).<\/p>\n<p>Las llamadas One Minute Sculptures (Esculturas de un minuto) que Erwin Wurm realiza<br \/>\ndesde finales de los a\u00f1os noventa forman parte de su obra m\u00e1s conocida.<br \/>\nSe trata de \u201cesculturas\u201d de un minuto de duraci\u00f3n, interpretadas<br \/>\npor el p\u00fablico o por el propio artista, con el uso de elementos y posturas<br \/>\ntan singulares como c\u00f3micas: sostenerse con unos cuantos bol\u00edgrafos<br \/>\nentre los dedos de los pies, hacer de estanter\u00eda con un mont\u00f3n de<br \/>\nlibros en cada mano y entre las piernas, o intentar mantener un cubo de pl\u00e1stico<br \/>\nsobre la cabeza. Estas esculturas temporales las encontramos tambi\u00e9n registradas<br \/>\nen fotograf\u00edas en donde objetos y muebles centran la atenci\u00f3n: una<br \/>\nsilla que se sostiene incomprensiblemente sobre unas zanahorias, el equilibrio<br \/>\nimposible de un zapato sobre algo parecido a una escoba o la imagen casi obscena<br \/>\nde un banano o pl\u00e1tano entre las dos puertas semiabiertas de un armario.<br \/>\nSon esculturas que se definen, como indica su propio t\u00edtulo, por la idea<br \/>\nde lo ef\u00edmero y que consiguen alterar de forma esencial los c\u00f3digos<br \/>\nde lo que se entiende por escultura (perdurabilidad, patrimonio, memoria colectiva&#8230;<br \/>\nuna serie de conceptos asociados a la idea tradicional de escultura). A esto hay<br \/>\nque a\u00f1adir la noci\u00f3n, eminentemente contempor\u00e1nea, de inmaterialidad,<br \/>\ntal como se revela en las obras en las que el artista se limita a dar las instrucciones<br \/>\nprecisas, con indicaciones escritas o dibujadas, para la realizaci\u00f3n de<br \/>\nla pieza (Take off One Shoe and Listen to It for a While [Qu\u00edtate un zapato<br \/>\ny esc\u00fachalo un rato, 2004], Take the Rubber Band and Play the Finnish National<br \/>\nHymn [Coge la goma y toca el himno nacional finland\u00e9s, 2002] o Throw Yourself<br \/>\nAway [T\u00edrate a la basura, 2004]). Asimismo, las indicaciones para conseguir<br \/>\naumentar de talla en ocho d\u00edas \u2013otra vez la obsesi\u00f3n \u201cgordura-transformaci\u00f3n\u201d\u2013<br \/>\nen el libro From Men\u2019s size L to size XL. En este \u00faltimo caso, la<br \/>\nobra no es el objeto-libro, sino las indicaciones que forman parte de su contenido<br \/>\n(\u201cSleep late\u201d [Duerme hasta tarde], \u201cSlow movements\u201d [Movimientos<br \/>\nlentos], \u201cWatch TV lying down\u201d [Ve la tele tumbado], etc.), que indican<br \/>\nc\u00f3mo llevar a cabo el proceso \u201cescult\u00f3rico\u201d, su realizaci\u00f3n<br \/>\na nivel mental, conceptual. As\u00ed, Wurm da un paso m\u00e1s hacia la desmaterializaci\u00f3n,<br \/>\nva m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la especificidad f\u00edsica de los objetos, en<br \/>\nun \u00e1gil salto que se eleva de la pesantez y sustancialidad de \u00e9stos,<br \/>\nen un esp\u00edritu semejante al gesto de leggerezza a que alud\u00eda Italo<br \/>\nCalvino en sus conocidas propuestas para la literatura de nuestro milenio, tratando<br \/>\nde quitar peso a la estructura del relato. <\/p>\n<p>Finalmente, hemos de se\u00f1alar una de las aportaciones m\u00e1s interesantes<br \/>\ndel trabajo reciente de Erwin Wurm, en donde el artista, saliendo de las premisas<br \/>\npropiamente \u201cescult\u00f3ricas\u201d que hasta ahora hemos definido,<br \/>\npone en cuesti\u00f3n otros aspectos de la creaci\u00f3n pl\u00e1stica:<br \/>\nla idea misma del arte o del artista. Se trata de la serie Instructions for Idleness<br \/>\n(Instrucciones para la holgazaner\u00eda, 2001), realizada a partir de fotograf\u00edas<br \/>\nen las que el artista se escenifica a s\u00ed mismo, en diferentes actitudes<br \/>\ny escenarios. Una vez m\u00e1s, Wurm, con una mirada ir\u00f3nica, cargada<br \/>\nde humor, infringe los preceptos establecidos en torno a conceptos aceptados y<br \/>\nnos desvela el discurso \u201cconstruido\u201d, fruto de todo un entramado de<br \/>\ncreencias y valores, en torno a la idea del artista y su personalidad. Wurm aborda<br \/>\naqu\u00ed el clich\u00e9 del artista como un ser solitario por su condici\u00f3n<br \/>\nde creador, de personalidad mani\u00e1tica, contemplativa y nost\u00e1lgica,<br \/>\ncon el temperamento propio de Saturno \u2013seg\u00fan afirmaba la tradici\u00f3n<br \/>\nantigua\u2013, que personifica todo un t\u00f3pico, una \u201cconstrucci\u00f3n<br \/>\nmental\u201d que se ha mantenido, de alguna manera, hasta nuestros d\u00edas.<br \/>\nEn esta serie, la imagen del artista mirando al vac\u00edo, ajeno a la realidad<br \/>\ny ensimismado en sus pensamientos (\u00bfel artista inspirado, arrebatado?),<br \/>\ndurmiendo en un rinc\u00f3n durante las horas de trabajo, o fum\u00e1ndose<br \/>\nun porro por la ma\u00f1ana antes del desayuno, son acompa\u00f1adas por t\u00edtulos<br \/>\ntan expl\u00edcitos como: Fantasize about nihilism (Fantasea sobre el nihilismo),<br \/>\nStay in your pyjamas all day (Qu\u00e9date en pijama todo el d\u00eda) o Be<br \/>\nindifferent about everything (Mu\u00e9strate indiferente ante todo).<\/p>\n<p>Esta es la verdadera dimensi\u00f3n contempor\u00e1nea que define el trabajo<br \/>\nde Wurm: su obra consigue transmutar las nociones fundamentales establecidas que<br \/>\ndefinen tanto el lenguaje escult\u00f3rico (cuestionando a la vez los conceptos<br \/>\nligados a ese lenguaje, como la perdurabilidad o la materialidad) como la propia<br \/>\nidea del arte o de la creaci\u00f3n (asociadas tradicionalmente a la locura,<br \/>\nel genio y la inspiraci\u00f3n). Y Wurm consigue algo realmente dif\u00edcil,<br \/>\ncomo es tratar estos asuntos siempre desde una lograda iron\u00eda, desde el<br \/>\ngui\u00f1o y el sentido del humor. <\/p>\n<p>Alguien dijo en una ocasi\u00f3n que el humor es una afirmaci\u00f3n de la<br \/>\nsuperioridad del ser humano ante las otras criaturas del planeta. Lo que es cierto<br \/>\nes que el humor es una de las terapias m\u00e1s inteligentes, que nos inmuniza<br \/>\nante el peso de la previsible cotidianidad, poni\u00e9ndonos en alerta sobre<br \/>\nc\u00f3mo nos tomamos la realidad demasiado en serio. El sentido del humor nos<br \/>\npermite siempre poder pensar, como dec\u00eda Malraux: \u201cTout peut toujours<br \/>\n\u00eatre pire\u201d (\u201cTodo podr\u00eda siempre ser peor\u201d). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sculpture according to Wurm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> If humour can be defined as something that can question the established and<br \/>\n  reflect the evident absurdity of our reality, something capable of changing<br \/>\n  the hyperseriousness of our attitudes, that allows us to reach the genuine maturity<br \/>\n  of reasoning, then there is no denying the sense of humour that, intelligently<br \/>\n  set out, characterises Austrian artist Erwin Wurm\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>The art Wurm (Bruck\/Mur, 1954) has created has often been called conceptual,<br \/>\n  linking it to different alternative languages, perhaps given the variety of<br \/>\n  resources the artist uses (video, photography, actionism), and the peculiarity<br \/>\n  of some of the materials he resorts to (from pens and jerkins to second-hand<br \/>\n  clothes). Nevertheless, an in-depth analysis of his work reveals an oeuvre that<br \/>\n  is eminently dedicated to sculpture \u2013mainly\u2013 and is defined by a<br \/>\n  series of ever-present \u201ccategories,\u201d which are not set out in isolation,<br \/>\n  but in combination, almost like a cause-effect-cause network. <\/p>\n<p> The dialectics between vacuum and matter, the intrinsic possibilities of the<br \/>\n  materials, the dialogue between sculpture and non-sculptural object, the body<br \/>\n  as a support and the idea of transformation. These sculptural \u201ccategories\u201d<br \/>\n  almost always appear in Erwin Wurm\u2019s varied oeuvre, although the purpose<br \/>\n  of his approach is to take them to the limit of their meaning and question the<br \/>\n  actual \u2013perhaps the most essential?\u2013 \u201ccategory\u201d that<br \/>\n  defines sculpture as a classical artistic language: its own durability.<\/p>\n<p> Since the late eighties, Wurm has produced works using the traces of dust left<br \/>\n  by the outline of objects that once stood in now-empty spaces. The intangible<br \/>\n  takes shape, revealing the existence of objects via their absence. Thus, the<br \/>\n  dialectics between matter and vacuum \u2013which here becomes a reasoning between<br \/>\n  presence and absence\u2013 tallies with the intrinsic possibilities of a material<br \/>\n  that can hardly be classed as \u201csculptural,\u201d i.e. specks of dust.<br \/>\n  Furthermore, said material stimulates many associations and mental processes.<br \/>\n  Dust, like the ash that remains after a fire, represents something that was<br \/>\n  before and, although we associate it with dirt, we also connect it to something<br \/>\n  living. Conversely, we associate aseptic cleanliness with the extinct, with<br \/>\n  lifeless things. <\/p>\n<p>Wurm uses a very interesting element in this series of works: the glass cabinet<br \/>\n  \u2013which refers to the established role played by artistic institutions\u2013,<br \/>\n  as something that protects the object but also that determines what is worthy<br \/>\n  of viewing and, finally, what is, or what is not, art. This is all set out employing<br \/>\n  a gesture that is as transgressor as it is loaded with irony: to represent absence<br \/>\n  itself. <\/p>\n<p>One of Erwin Wurm\u2019s most famous series is Gegenst\u00e4nde (1988-2004):<br \/>\n  garments with the details that obviously characterise them as such \u2013buttonholes,<br \/>\n  lapels, pockets\u2013 no longer presenting their normal texture, soft and foldable,<br \/>\n  but transformed into hard, rigid objects. The artist absolutely and stunningly<br \/>\n  changes the perception we would have of those same garments if their materiality<br \/>\n  were \u201cnormal.\u201d The familiarity, given its proximity and commonplaceness,<br \/>\n  of a garment is turned into something strange, inappropriate, removed from our<br \/>\n  environment, and this, as well as causing certain unease, leads our lips to<br \/>\n  inevitably twitch into a smile on viewing this extravagance. <\/p>\n<p>  That loss of the role played by garments that no longer dress the human body<br \/>\n  but create other forms, other bodies even, is what is somehow chronicled in<br \/>\n  the video 59 Positions (1992), in which Wurm continues to explore the sculptural<br \/>\n  constant features that define his work. Alongside the peculiar employment of<br \/>\n  non-sculptural material, i.e. clothes, the idea of transformation also appears,<br \/>\n  since this proposal is based on the process itself. The video shows anthropomorphic<br \/>\n  shapes that hide bodies crouching or laying on the floor, wearing tight clothes<br \/>\n  that limit their movements but also allow them to move into the different positions.<br \/>\n  There is something likeable about this kind of living sculptures, that contrasts<br \/>\n  with the grotesqueness of their contortions and movements. <\/p>\n<p> These works can be linked to the series of photographs that present the same<br \/>\n  person in a \u201cnormal\u201d state and fattened-transformed by putting layers<br \/>\n  of clothes on, one on top of the other (such as in Me, Me, Fat, 1993). Likewise,<br \/>\n  the video Face (a Thousand Portraits), 1993-1994, depicts a face that changes<br \/>\n  its expression every few seconds, losing all traces of its own, identifiable<br \/>\n  personality. These works all coincide in the use of the human body, yet they<br \/>\n  never aim to undertake a psychoanalytical introspection, as could seem at first.<br \/>\n  In Wurm\u2019s oeuvre, the body is a medium, perhaps the most accessible expressive<br \/>\n  tool, but it is also, above all, a support that represents the condition of<br \/>\n  what is perishable and transitory. These two concepts are essential to understand<br \/>\n  his works. (Moreover, just as he \u201cfattens\u201d people, Wurm also fattens<br \/>\n  objects: houses or cars that appear bloated, bursting out of the seams of their<br \/>\n  own outlines, as occurs in Fat Car, 2001-2004, or in Little Big House, 2003.)\n<\/p>\n<p>The pieces called One Minute Sculptures, that Erwin Wurm has been creating since<br \/>\n  the late nineties, are some of his most celebrated works. These \u201csculptures\u201d<br \/>\n  last a minute, played by the audience or by the artist himself, using elements<br \/>\n  and in positions as singular as they are comical: standing up with pens between<br \/>\n  their toes, acting as a bookcase holding loads of books in each hand and between<br \/>\n  their legs, or balancing a plastic cube on their heads. These temporary sculptures<br \/>\n  have also been recorded in photographs where the objects and furniture are the<br \/>\n  centre of attention: a chair balancing incomprehensibly on some carrots, a shoe<br \/>\n  balancing impossibly on what looks like a broom or the virtually obscene image<br \/>\n  of a banana between the doors of a wardrobe, that stand ajar. These sculptures<br \/>\n  are based, as proposed in the title, on the idea of the ephemeral and essentially<br \/>\n  alter the codes that define sculpture (durability, heritage, collective memory&#8230;<br \/>\n  a series of concepts linked to the traditional notion of sculpture). This should<br \/>\n  be considered alongside the, eminently contemporary, idea of immateriality,<br \/>\n  as revealed in the works in which the artist simply lists the precise instructions,<br \/>\n  with written or drawn indications, required to create the piece (Take off One<br \/>\n  Shoe and Listen to It for a While [2004], Take the Rubber Band and Play the<br \/>\n  Finnish National Hymn [2002] or Throw Yourself Away [2004]). Another example<br \/>\n  appears in the book From Men\u2019s size L to size XL, including indications<br \/>\n  on how to increase one clothing size in eight days \u2013once again the \u201cfatness-transformation\u201d<br \/>\n  obsession. In the latter case, the work is not the object-book but the indications<br \/>\n  it contains (\u201cSleep late,\u201d \u201cSlow movements,\u201d \u201cWatch<br \/>\n  TV lying down,\u201d etc.), which show the reader how to perform the \u201csculptural\u201d<br \/>\n  process, i.e. its mental, conceptual, realisation. Consequently, Wurm takes<br \/>\n  a step further towards dematerialisation, he goes beyond the physical specificity<br \/>\n  of the objects, taking a limber jump off their heaviness and substantiality,<br \/>\n  like the leggerezza Italo Calvino referred to in his famous memos for the literature<br \/>\n  of this millennium, trying to take a weight of the structure of the story. <\/p>\n<p> Finally, we must note one of the most interesting contributions of Erwin Wurm\u2019s<br \/>\n  recent work, where the artist, surpassing the strictly \u201csculptural\u201d<br \/>\n  premises defined to date, questions other issues that influence plastic creation:<br \/>\n  the actual idea of art or of the artist. We are referring to the series Instructions<br \/>\n  for Idleness (2001), created using photographs in which the artist portrays<br \/>\n  himself, in different attitudes and settings. Once again, Wurm, from an ironic,<br \/>\n  humorous standpoint, infringes the precepts established regarding conventional<br \/>\n  concepts and reveals the \u201cconstructed\u201d discourse, fruit of a whole<br \/>\n  series of beliefs and values, regarding the notion of the artist and his personality.<br \/>\n  Wurm tackles the clich\u00e9 of the artist as a solitary being given his status<br \/>\n  as creator, with a maniac, contemplative, nostalgic personality, with a temperament<br \/>\n  typical of Saturn \u2013the old tradition put it\u2013, that embodied a whole<br \/>\n  clich\u00e9, a \u201cmental construction\u201d that has lasted, in a way,<br \/>\n  until our times. In this series, the image of the artist looking out into the<br \/>\n  void, oblivious to reality and tangled up in his own thoughts (the inspired,<br \/>\n  impassioned artist?), sleeping in a corner during work hours, or smoking a joint<br \/>\n  before breakfast, are accompanied by titles as illustrative as: Fantasize about<br \/>\n  nihilism, Stay in your pyjamas all day or Be indifferent about everything.<\/p>\n<p>This is the genuine contemporary dimension that defines Wurm\u2019s work: his<br \/>\n  oeuvre manages to transmute the fundamental pre-established notions that define<br \/>\n  both the sculptural language (questioning concepts linked to this language,<br \/>\n  like durability or materiality) and the actual idea of art or creation (traditionally<br \/>\n  associated to madness, genius and inspiration). The truth is Wurm manages to<br \/>\n  carry out something quite difficult: to tackle those issues continuously from<br \/>\n  authentic irony, from playfulness and with a sense of humour. <\/p>\n<p> Someone once said that humour is an affirmation of the human being\u2019s superiority<br \/>\n  over the other creatures that inhabit the planet. The truth is that humour is<br \/>\n  one of the most intelligent therapies, that makes us immune to the predictable<br \/>\n  weight of commonplaceness, alerting us on how we take reality too seriously.<br \/>\n  A sense of humour always allows us to think like Malraux: \u201cTout peut toujours<br \/>\n  \u00eatre pire\u201d [Everything could always be worse]. <\/p>\n<p>Translation: Laura F. Farhall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autor: P\u00eda Jard\u00ed Revista: L\u00c1PIZ Revista Internacional de Arte n\u00ba 215 Si se puede definir el humor como algo capaz de poner en cuesti\u00f3n lo establecido y reflejarnos lo absurdo evidente de nuestra realidad, algo capaz de cambiar la hiperseriedad de nuestras actitudes para hacernos llegar, con ello, a la verdadera madurez del razonamiento, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[444,351,400],"class_list":["post-46190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articulos","tag-arte","tag-articulo-html","tag-lapiz-revista-internacional-de-arte"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48415,"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46190\/revisions\/48415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/formacionsimple.com\/revistasculturales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}