Big Suit

Erwin Wurm's "Big Suit" presents a revolutionary view of sculpture in which the human body is represented by clothing. The three-metre-long, painted aluminum suit shows the absence of the body and questions traditional concepts of sculpture.

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Since the 1980s and throughout his career, Erwin Wurm has worked with clothing as an element to represent people and to question the concept of sculpture. "When I deal with sculpture, I think of Roman or Greek sculptures of heroes, horses, etc., with massive bodies - massive sculptures - but they are actually only defined by a very thin layer of bronze skin."

Big Suit is a three-metre-long, painted aluminum suit in which the body is missing. What remains is an empty shell: the body is no longer shown, but the viewer can only see its absence within the clothing. Despite the size of Big Suit, the subject itself is reduced to a minimum, the massive bodies of the ancient heroes are now replaced by the empty garments, iconic symbols of our contemporary society and culture. Erwin Wurm twists the traditional representation of public monuments and allows the human being as an individual to fade away.