Lot 17
17
Erwin Wurm (b. 1954)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… Read more
Erwin Wurm (b. 1954)

Guggenheim-Melting

Details
Erwin Wurm (b. 1954)
Guggenheim-Melting
resin
17 3/8 x 55 1/8 x 43 3/8in. (44 x 140 x 110cm.)
Executed in 2005, this work is number nine from an edition of twelve
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

I am interested in the object, in liberating it from its field, giving it a new validity and meaning. It is integrated in a different system of values and ideas: in that of art. In this way it loses its function and takes on another. I do not want to go so far as to say that the object is no longer recognized. Rather I want to have the appeal of the recognition effect on the one hand and that of alienation on the other, which the object emanates.

Erwin Wurm, interview with Desire Scheller, Design Vienna, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, exh. cat., Vienna 1989, p. 29

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