Fifty-Nine Positions - Erwin Wurm jewellery initiating a dialogue between tradition

initiating a dialogue between tradition and modernity

Looking at an empty chair makes us wonder who could sit or who might be sitting there

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This first generation of foreigners were followed by others from all around the world

Fifty-Nine Positions - Erwin Wurm jewellery initiating a dialogue between tradition59 Positions is a 20 minute video, filmed in 1992 using a stationary camera in an empty, unadorned room with a concrete floor, consisting of fragments of actions each lasting just a few seconds, in which we glimpse the artist Erwin Wurm and his friends bundled up in sweaters, pants and shirts, seemingly oblivious to the usual purposes of these articles of clothing. Their bodies are contorted into ridiculous poses, under the influence of a strange