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It was beautiful autumn weather during Frieze Art Fair 2009, so we took a walk in the park: Frieze’s Sculpture Park, located in the southeast corner of Regent’s Park. This year’s Frieze Sculpture Park has been curated by David Thorp and featured works by the followning artists: Zhan Wang: Artificial Rock No. 16 (2007); Maria Roosen: Breast Berries (2009); Eva Rothschild: Someone and Someone (2009); Graham Hudson: Edward VIII (2009); Rémy Markowitsch: BONSAI POTATO (2001/09); Andrea Nacciarriti: Grain Circus (2009); Paul McCarthy: Henry Moore Bound to Fail (Bronze) (2004); Louise Bourgeois: The Couple (2003); Neha Choksi: A Child’s Grove (2009); Vanessa Billy: Two Trees I (2009); Teresa Margolles: Bandera (Flag) (2009); Erwin Wurm: Pumpkin (2009).

Frieze Sculpture Park / Frieze Art Fair. Regent’s Park, London / UK, October 13/15, 2009.

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With more than 400 drawings, videos, photographs, and sculptures, the Erwin Wurm retrospective at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Germany shows the most expansive show of the artist’s work to date. “Particularly for the Deichtorhallen Erwin Wurm created a spectacular new work, which resumes to the Viennese work of 2006 “House Attack”: The world 9 x 5 x 5 m of a large single family house is elevated from the fishing rods and stands upside down in the Deichtorhallen. Erwin Wurm is a presentation made in collaboration with MUMOK, Vienna and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. The artist’s book Erwin Wurm: The Artist Who Swallowed the World, published in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Aachen by Hatje Cantz Verlag, will appear in English with comments by the artist and an essay by the philosopher Robert Pfaller.” (PR Deichtorhallen) Erwin Wurm: The ridiculous live of a serious man. The serious live of a ridiculous man. (Das lächerliche Leben eines ernsten Mannes. Das ernste Leben eines lächerlichen Mannes) (April 27 – September 2, 2007). Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, July 25, 2007. Part 1/2.
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• Erwin Wurm: Retrospective / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / part 1/2

Erwin Wurm (born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria) is one of the most successful contemporary Austrian artists. The retrospective show at Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents for the first time, and on such a large scale, Erwin Wurm’s comprehensive oeuvre, which includes all forms of media and systems of reference. Deichtorhallen Director Dr. Robert Fleck, who knows Erwin Wurm since a very long time provides us with an introduction to the exhibition. He talks about the initial idea for the show, the exhibition architecture, Erwin Wurm’s concept of sculpture, and the reception with the visitors of the exhibition. Erwin Wurm: The ridiculous live of a serious man. The serious live of a ridiculous man. (April 27 – September 2, 2007). Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, July 25, 2007. Part 1/2.
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• Erwin Wurm: Retrospective / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / part 2/2