Take your Most Loved Philosophers

• Erwin Wurm

Poster, offset prints
100 x 70 cm
250 copies
Published by cneai =, Chatou and Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris

Take your favorite books to make yourself a “One Minute Sculpture” (a performance during which the artist asks – by means of a notice – museum visitors to stay still in a particular position for a very short time). Here, the borrowers of the work will make this sculpture at home, waiting a minute and taking a photograph of this small human library. All the books which have had a transformative effect on you are accepted.

Send the photos to: collection@cneai.com

Offset printed poster 100x170 cm 250 copies run Published by cneai =, Chatou and Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris Erwin Wurm was more interested in the performative nature of Bruno Munari’s images. With a drawing and its caption "Take your Most Loved Philosophers“, Erwin Wurm provides the viewer with the instructions to create a “One Minute Sculpture“ and also the possibility to use the poster itself as a dust jacket for the artist’s monographic catalogue "The Artist Who Swallowed The World" (Cantz).  A part of Reading dance, in reply to 1944 Bruno Munari’s series of images titled: "Ricerca della comodità in una poltrona scomoda“ [Seeking confort in an uncomfortable chair), that is published the same year in Domus (Domus 202 / October 1944) to illustrate an article, full of humor, that he wrote about the proliferation of various forms of seats and how uncomfortable they were.