THE NEW IS HARDLY NEW .......Chapter 8
Before I took the plane there was one last museum that I would take it. It is what they describe as the "New Pinacothèque" with a collection from the 15th to the 20th century. I was mainly interested as you can imagine by the 20th but frankly when I get there, there were so many paintings which I had already seen before, that the stroll was nice, but no more... What was fun was how my visit started Erwin Wurm 1954-) Untitled1991 Erwin Wurm 1954-) Untitled1991 I discovered his work in Melbourne when I was there some years ago and found him very funny. He is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur / Styria. He currently lives and works in Vienna and Limburg, Austria. Since the late 1980s, he has developed an ongoing series of One Minute Sculptures , in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand, prompting the viewer to question the very definition of sculpture . He seeks to use the "s...