Double Dream — Erwin Wurm

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present Double Dream, an exhibition of new and recent work by Erwin Wurm. Over the last four decades, the Austrian artist’s dynamic sculptural practice has explored the absurdity and paradoxes inherent in post-modern life. While his oeuvre is filled with larger-than-life-size pickles, anthropomorphic sausages, empty suits, and impossibly proportioned houses, Wurm is best known for his iconic One Minute Sculptures, which provide instructions for participants to create temporary sculptures by performing illogical poses with everyday objects. Through his paradoxical work, Wurm confronts philosophical questions about contemporary society—from obsessions with status and consumerism, to anxieties around traditional value systems, to the complexities of modern psychology. At the same time, the artist explores new possibilities for sculpture through ambitious formal experiments with volume, surface, scale, and duration. Double Dream marks Wurm’s first solo presentation in New York in five years and runs alongside his solo exhibition at Museo Fortuny, Venice, which opens concurrent with the Venice Biennale on May 5th.