ERWIN WURM: SAMURAI & ZORRO text by Abraham Orden

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2012, First edition, 93 pp., 8 1/2" X 14 3/4", Hardcover

Fine

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Erwin Wurm: Samurai & Zorro, August 31 - November 17, 2012 in which Wurm created models of existing buildings of European and American architecture, they were first formed in clay, then attacked in various ways – the artist punched or kicked them, hit them with his elbows or crushed them with his own body weight by lying or sitting on them. The marks of destruction were then preserved through being cast in bronze, acrylic or polyester, and refined by silver- or gold-plating. Scarce