Erwin Wurm: Bad People

Erwin Wurm's Bad People sculpture series, created at Gmunden Ceramics, is characterised by paradoxical depictions of people. Noses, ears, and mouths, taken from the physiognomy of the human face, are recontextualised and become part of figures and inflated faces that embody the all-too-human.

Erwin Wurm's ceramic sculptures reveal their immediate creation, emphasising the absurd, the gestural expression, the physicality, and the creative possibilities of the medium of clay. Ceramics as a means of artistic expression corresponds to Erwin Wurm's performative approach and is once again highly relevant in contemporary art.