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Erwin Wurm — Roturua, NZ (Hotel Rooms series)
Erwin Wurm

Roturua, NZ (Hotel Rooms series)

A hotel room in Rotorua, New Zealand is rendered with deadpan precision in this chromogenic print from Erwin Wurm's *Hotel Rooms* series, capturing the anonymous, interchangeable quality of transient lodging spaces. Wurm's characteristic wit and philosophical inquiry into the everyday are present in the image's unflinching documentation of the mundane interior, where the ordinary becomes subtly absurd. Flush-mounted to aluminium, the work achieves a crisp, flattened surface that reinforces the series' detached, almost clinical gaze.

Medium
chromogenic print, flush-mounted to aluminium

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Under the Influence

December 10, 2014

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