{"id":8693,"date":"2020-04-17T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2020-04-16T07:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T11:05:31","slug":"erwin-wurm-at-tang-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/erwin-wurm-at-tang-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Erwin Wurm at Tang Contemporary Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing gallery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tangcontemporary.com\/2020-who-am-i-en\">Tang Contemporary Art<\/a> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/partner-content\/tang-contemporary-art-reopened-konig-galerie\">reopened<\/a> (after closing in January to prevent the spread of COVID-19) with a showcase of work by artists represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koeniggalerie.com\/\">Konig Galerie<\/a> in Berlin.\u00a0 The exhibition includes Austrian artist Erwin Wurm\u2019s deliberately absurd \u2018abstract sculpture\u2019 (formed from variously sized cast bronze frankfurters) which brings to mind recent work at New York\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehmannmaupin.com\/exhibitions\/erwin-wurm3\">Lehmann Maupin Gallery<\/a> which involved food treated as an object rather than something to eat.\u00a0 Made entirely of concrete, this sculpture is a permanent version of Wurm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/artworks\/wurm-one-minute-sculptures-p82013\">One Minute Sculptures<\/a>, in which participants interact with everyday objects. (Photo from New York Art Tours\u2019 archive, Jan \u201920).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8694\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8694\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8694\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8694\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erwin_wurm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erwin_wurm.jpg 2270w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erwin_wurm-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/erwin_wurm-275x400.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erwin Wurm, One Minute forever (hands\/fruits), concrete, 15.35 x 7.87 x 5.91 inches, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing gallery Tang Contemporary Art recently reopened (after closing in January to prevent the spread of COVID-19) with a showcase of work by artists represented by Konig Galerie in Berlin.\u00a0 The exhibition includes Austrian artist Erwin Wurm\u2019s deliberately absurd \u2018abstract sculpture\u2019 (formed from variously sized cast bronze frankfurters) which brings to mind recent work at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/17\/erwin-wurm-at-tang-contemporary-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erwin Wurm at Tang Contemporary Art&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,2384,1591,145,2755,8841,13,1536,82,8639,8842,8840],"class_list":["post-8693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-beijing","tag-berlin","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-erwin-wurm","tag-galerie-koenig","tag-gallery","tag-group-exhibition","tag-lehmann-maupin","tag-newyorkarttours","tag-reopening","tag-tang-contemporary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2gd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8695,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions\/8695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}