Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

During the Venice Biennale, Austrian artist Erwin Wurm unveiled his latest show, set in the richly eclectic framework of the Fortuny Museum, a Gothic-inspired palazzo transformed by the Spanish-born artist, designer, inventor, stage designer, photographer and textile innovator Mariano Fortuny into a Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. As one of the city’s most atmospheric and revealing museums, Museo Fortuny offers what could be described as …