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Erwin Wurm
Bar (Drinking Sculptures)

2019

About the Item

Erwin Wurm's Drinking Sculptures are an expansion of his One Minute Sculpture series. These performative works consist of vintage furniture mounted onto bronze sculptures - cucumbers and like forms - turned into bars on which various spirits and glasses are placed and presented for consumption. Like One Minute Sculptures, the artwork is only completed when a performative act takes place: here the participant must engage in becoming abundantly drunk and simultaneously part of the sculpture. Wurm hereby relentlessly asks whether today’s world can only be endured in ecstatic states of intoxication.
  • Creator:
    Erwin Wurm (1954, Austrian)
  • Creation Year:
    2019
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 55.12 in (140.01 cm)Width: 32.68 in (83.01 cm)Depth: 62.99 in (160 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU944314138582
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