A sculptor who once sold dust to a museum for around $15,000 has lately turned his eye to designing homes across Greece and Austria
An abstract by Georg Baselitz entitled ‘Licht wie raum mecht hern’ sprays bright colors in Erwin Wurm’s industrial loft in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt neighborhood, where he lives with his wife, Élise Mougin-Wurm, and their 10-year-old daughter, Estée.First Erwin Wurm made a fat house. Then he made a narrow house. Then he made a house that was just right—several houses, actually.
One of his fat house pieces is sitting on a hill when Wurm, 67, pulls into the compound of large sheds where he fabricates his sculptures, a short drive from Vienna in the village of Limberg. Its white walls bulge and sag under a red-tiled roof, like jowls on a pudgy face. Wurm made his first fat house in 2003 to skewer society’s insatiable appetites, but it’s more funny than angry. Wurm is a showman, not a prophet, which is partly why museum crowds love him.
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