Wakefield's Yorkshire Sculpture Park begins to install huge Erwin Wurm exhibition, set to debut in June

Opening to the public on Saturday, June 10, ‘Trap of the Truth’ will feature more than 100 works created over 30 years of the artist’s career, including 55 sculptures indoors, 19 sculptures in the landscape as well as paintings, photographs, videos and drawings,

Erwin Wurm is one of Austria’s most prominent artists, highly regarded for his 2017 Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Over three decades, he has challenged the rules of sculpture, the limitations of the human body, and its relationship to the spaces we inhabit.

Now, Erwin is set to launch his first exhibition in the UK at the sculpture park near Wakefield.

The exhibition title ‘Trap of the Truth’ refers to the thinking of influential 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes, who set out to interrogate the subjectivity of truth.

Clare Lilley, Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, said: “Erwin Wurm’s sculpture will be a riot of expression and colour against the green Yorkshire landscape and in the galleries.

“His imaginative powers are limitless, and we hope that visitors will be inspired, energised, confounded, and amused by sculptures that portray familiar objects but in a way that is entirely unexpected.

"The exhibition will provoke and captivate and it’s a great pleasure and privilege to stage Erwin Wurm’s first museum show in the UK.”