Retrospective Erwin Vurma in CHA
ARTinvestment.RU   03 июля 2008

Central House of Artists continued cycle of big summer exhibition, giving the entire space of a famous Austrian Erwin Vurmu, the inventor of unprecedented hybrid of sculpture and performance

As an epigraph to the exhibition in Central House of Artists show filmed on the grounds of works of Erwin Vurma Video Red Hot Chili Peppers «Can't Stop»: the musicians are head down in the bright plastic pails, box up his nose markers, while in orbit - jars from the film, trying to keep his body between the wall and the pyramid of plastic of different things. However, the beautiful rockers perform invented artist performances, perhaps too neatly and artistically. In the author's version of men in their relationships with objects are not so victorious.

In the CHA projects Erwin Vurma presented in all stages and forms: it is graphic sketches, and photographs and video and even live performances, which were performed by students of drama schools. And how people in «one minute sculptures» Prytula trying to things, for example, lie down on the stick lying on the floor, usidet to have the mop against the wall, to keep in the ears, nose, mouth and hair a sheaf chopsticks, something not only amusing, but almost painful. Ironic critic of the society of consumption, 53-year-old Erwin Vurm offers a new type of relationship between people and objects, the essence of which, it seems, is that they both treat each other is not pragmatic, consumer, and only free and creative, which requires All participants in the process of compromise, if not the victims.

In the new exhibition from the works of Erwin Vurma, videos Tell, traveling around the city in a car the couple was discussing and, as conditional on the brink of reality that separates the living from the dead: the DNA of bananas 50 percent identical human, so that all of us - half the bananas, and after death may be recovered in the form of iPod'ov, although more would be in the form of Mother Teresa and Paris Hilton. And if listen to him, the car suddenly enters sheer wall of the house.

People and things from Erwin Vurma like a long time to exchange DNA, mutated and acquired new properties. People then lose some parts of the body, upryatyvaya arms, legs and head in the abstract white cubes, then become strange thickening and outgrowth. A car, apparently favorite experimental facilities artist, then turned into a flat pancake, the donor, as the dogs, cuddle, or are obese, covering them once a boat-tailed Pig folds.

The ability to gain weight and volume of fascinating artist, even forcing the batten and stones - for example, a alpine hut, which upersya tiled roofs in the ceiling of the spacious hall CHA (a few years ago, «thick home» made a sensation at the Art Fair Basel). Inside the house - a video in which the fat structure razevaya Window-Eyes, assures that it is his excess weight and makes it art.

Art from Erwin Vurma, and the truth appears as something superfluous. It is no coincidence that the most grotesque of his sculptures - a man, turned into a ball, or someone like raspiraet inside the drive - are called to as «the artist, swallowed world» and «Designer, swallowed the world when it was flat». However, all kinds of excesses are Acquires themselves works of art or, for example, art institutions. A number of sculptural works by Erwin Vurma represents well-known architectural monuments and museum buildings - but ozhirevshie, oplyvshie or gained clearly exuberant vitality. There is diffluent the New York Guggenheim, and the building in which the Fair «Art Basel», in canine copulate with building Kassel Documenta.

But while the art, and sometimes suffers from excesses, extra art, it still does not happen. In CHA sculptures and objects Erwin Vurma located on a huge white catwalk, stretching across the room. To consider them, viewers must remove the shoes and go up to him, adding to the ranks of such exhibits, and even for a minute turned into a sculpture.

Source: www.kommersant.ru