Pee on Someone's Rug
Details
Erwin Wurm (b. 1954)
Pee on Someone's Rug
signed 'Wurm' (on the reverse)
Cibachrome print mounted on aluminium
49 5/8 x 62 5/8in. (126 x 159cm.)
Executed in 2003, this work is from an edition of five
Pee on Someone's Rug
signed 'Wurm' (on the reverse)
Cibachrome print mounted on aluminium
49 5/8 x 62 5/8in. (126 x 159cm.)
Executed in 2003, this work is from an edition of five
Provenance
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
I Love My Time, I Don't Like My Time, exh. cat., San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2004 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).
VV.AA., Erwin Wurm: Wear me out, Ostfildern 2011 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).
VV.AA., Erwin Wurm: Wear me out, Ostfildern 2011 (another from the edition illustrated in colour).
Exhibited
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Glue Your Brain, 2005-2006 (another from the edition exhibited).
Aachen, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, The Artist Who Swallowed the World, 2006 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 84).
Malmö, Malmö Konstmuseum, Spit in Someone's Soup, 2008 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 29).
Den Hague, GEM, The Beauty Business, 2011 (another from the edition exhibited).
Aachen, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, The Artist Who Swallowed the World, 2006 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 84).
Malmö, Malmö Konstmuseum, Spit in Someone's Soup, 2008 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 29).
Den Hague, GEM, The Beauty Business, 2011 (another from the edition exhibited).
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