Austrian artist Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures have influenced a generation of U.S. sculptors, though this body of work has never been shown at a major institution in Los Angeles. For the MAK Center exhibition, the artist travelled to West Hollywood and set up a group of One Minute Sculptures in the Schindler House, conceived thusly: Wurm spent extended time onsite, fabricated location-specific and preservation-sensitive sculpture pedestals, source props from all around Los Angeles ranging from banal to blatantly comedic, and then produced a set of instructions for visitors to perform the various sculptures for sixty seconds at a time, consisting of balancing acts, mild contortions, and altered uses of everyday physical objects.

In production since 1997, these inclusive and interactive works act simultaneously as off-the-cuff quips and radical reconsiderations of the major questions key to both sculpture and art viewing: how figures relate to their ground, how one inhabits space, and how simple acts of re-framing can alter perceptions.

 
Erwin Wurm: One Minute Sculptures is graciously supported by the Pasadena Art Alliance, and, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.