Art and its institutions

Erwin Wurm

One minute sculpture
1997

Erwin Wurm is a hilarious artist who apparently had people send him a print of his work with a fee of 100 euro so he would sign it and send it back to them so they could call their print an original. This seems to question other ways art can be sold and what constitutes an original work of art outside the set standards of galleries.

This is an interview of him working and talking in his studio definitely worth watching http://prettycoolpeopleinterviews.submarinechannel.nl/erwin-wurm