When I'm unmotivated and out of ideas Citygarden is always good for a few images. It's four years now since it opened and even has its own iPhone app.
Most of the sculptures challenge the viewer. None are pretty; all require thought. So what's with Erwin Wurm's Big Suit? Headless, ludicrous in pink, standing on a formal pedestal like a hero. Read it as you will but read it closely. Personally, I wonder if it is making fun of all the businessmen and women in the surrounding office towers. Headless, eyeless, pompous, attempting to gaze over downtown with no chance of vision.
Most of the sculptures challenge the viewer. None are pretty; all require thought. So what's with Erwin Wurm's Big Suit? Headless, ludicrous in pink, standing on a formal pedestal like a hero. Read it as you will but read it closely. Personally, I wonder if it is making fun of all the businessmen and women in the surrounding office towers. Headless, eyeless, pompous, attempting to gaze over downtown with no chance of vision.
The empty suit would be even more appropriate in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol building.
ReplyDeleteWow that's quite an interpretation there Bob :) I seem to remember headless business man with flamboyant taste in suits from a while back :)
ReplyDeleteLove it! I believe your interpretation is more than accurate! :-)
ReplyDeleteA very fitting interpretation!
ReplyDeleteThe statue would look better if it had a head with a mustache, pipe and unruly hair mulling over what e equals.
ReplyDeleteI think you are spot on here Bob.
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