House Attack - Have you ever felt the house would collapse? Try running under it and feel the sensation.

Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK) is the largest art museum in Austria. They pride themselves on the collection of modern art from the 20th and 21st century.

Wurm says, that anything can become sculpture: actions, written or drawn instructions, or even a thought. Erin Wurm is an Austrian artist with a unique perspective  on life. Highly regarded and very influential within the art scene for some time, Erwin Wurm’s work may not be all that familiar to most Villagers. Since the late 1980s he has developed an ongoing series of “One Minute Sculptures,” in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand, prompting the viewer to question the very definition of sculpture. He seeks to use the “shortest path” in creating a sculpture – a clear and fast, sometimes humorous, form of expression.

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Erin Wurm and MOMAK combined to create some architectural buzz in 2006. That is when the so-called ‘Attack House’ was born. Wurm installed the house on the outside facade of the MUMOK building. Wurm indicates that ‘House Attack is a symbol for an everyday occurrence as well as small-mindedness.

Erwin Wurm: House Attack

Outdoor sculpture at the Museum Moderner Kunst (MuMoK) in Vienna, Austria
(Architects: Ortner & Ortner, 1998–2001)

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