Erwin Wurm: Dreamers Solo exhibition at Museo Fortuny, Venice

The Museo Fortuny presents an exhibition of works by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, featuring both new sculptures shown for the first time and works retracing some of his most celebrated series. The exhibition unfolds across three floors of the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, which, for the first half of the 20th century, was the home and atelier of Spanish fashion designer Mariano Fortuny. The ground floor will be dedicated to a solo presentation of Wurm’s sculptures, while, on the first and second floors, his work will be brought into dialogue with Fortuny’s, the light-toned, ductile aspect of Wurm’s works conveying a sculptural plasticity as they emerge from the shadows of the museum’s rich collection. ‘I find that very exciting’, says Wurm, ‘placing contemporary sculpture in such a layered, historical environment’.