Bill Wurtz:

Take a look around at home. Lots of things. Everywhere. Packages here and there. Clothes and magazines all over the place. All these things that you need to live. Because you see them everyday they disappear in their triviality. What happens if we remove some of these things from their context and exhibit them in a completely different environment? This is of course nothing new. Duchamp and Warhol did it a long time ago. Duchamp called it "ready-mades". Warhol called it pop art. Since the 1970s the American artist Bill Wurtz has continued this tradition in his own special way. He calls it "Mediations on Everyday Objects and Events". Wurtz balances between reality and abstraction in his sculptures. He entices the viewer's own fantasies and questions about the artwork. Completely new, wild creations are conjured forth from Wurtz' carefully chosen everyday, banal objects. A plastic bag from your local convenience store becomes something else in Bill Wurtz' hands. At Ynglingagatan 1 something in metal that resembles a tree, it has a trunk and branches, on which different plastic bags represent the leaves. A map of Wurtz' life appears in this tree and a plastic bag is perhaps not only a plastic bag...