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Fat House Fat House and The artist who swallowed the world

Erwin Wurm2006

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil

"I made two fat objects, the car and the house, are the most prestigious objects, we all show our value and how good we are through cars and houses, with clothes too, of course, but what really matters is a big car and a big house.All the world is the same, so I found a combination of architectural systems, such as the home and the biological system, which can get fat, and this combination was very exciting.In fact it is something that can happen in the near future when we are connected with pieces of computers and so on.Then I made the house and the car fat, I used only these two objects, the fat house is one of the few, really rare fat works. - Erwin Wurm

'The Artist who swallowed the world' has to do with Montaigne because he writed about the world when he actually writed about himself. So when I think about it I realize that he had a lot of experience to think about himself in a way that addresses the concerns of many other people, because if he talks about his problems and no one else is worried about it, it's boring. When you talk about your grandmother is not interesting, who needs to know this? But Louise Bourgeois, for example, was able to address her concerns with her father in a way that many people were interested in. So that's it, in a way through Montaigne I came to this idea that you have to swallow the world, you have to bring the world inside you, you are able to have a lot of experience and spit something out. So I created the face of Antonie, the man who swallowed the world, and made him a symbol for the world and he stopped being fat, it's the world that's fat. "- Erwin Wurm

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  • Title: Fat House Fat House and The artist who swallowed the world
  • Creator: Erwin Wurm, Erwin Wurm
  • Date Created: 2003, 2006
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo

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