Minutiae

There is a scene in the 1963 film Charade where an orange is squeezed between the protagonists Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in kitsch version of the party game. Some of the most famous “one-minute sculptures” by artist Erwin Wurm, whose work goes on display in Munich this month, reworks this awkward, physical game to amusing effect, in fact underlying all Wurm’s work is a healthy dose of humor. His momentary installations involve reworking the relationship between normal objects (from pens to potatoes) and the human form. Gestures are frozen into something timeless and the everyday is transformed into the marvelous.