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Trap of the Truth: Erwin Wurm makes his UK museum exhibition debut

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© Erwin Wurm Renowned Austrian artist Erwin Wurm has unveiled his first UK museum exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. These are just some of the surreal sights awaiting visitors at Trap of the Truth, a comprehensive exhibition of Erwin Wurm's work running at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from now until 28 April 2024.

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Simone Brewster's new exhibition explores our social relationship with objects

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A new exhibition from one of the leading voices in contemporary design, Simone Brewster , encourages viewers to reconsider their perception of everyday objects and how we interact with them. These dialogues of heritage, memory, race, gender, tradition and form are embodied in some of the key centrepieces of the exhibition.

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Shotaro Kitada creates a serious yet jokey reality in his paper sculpture artworks

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Japanese illustrator Shotaro Kitada uses humble rolls of copy paper to create three-dimensional handmade sculptures that inhabit their own peculiar reality. Taking the shape of whacky giant heads perched on the top of vans to clumsy pedestrians getting their tongues stuck to icy lampposts, Shotaro's sculptures are a bizarre joy to behold.

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Japanese artist En Iwamura's fanciful sculptures are a holiday for the mind

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Japanese artist En Iwamura 's response invokes a sense of lively and wondrous innocence with his paintings, sculptures, and installations, which take the viewer on something approaching a holiday for the mind. Both of these works are on show at a solo exhibition at WOAW Gallery in Hong Kong, entitled URLANDSCHAF (26 May 26 to 7 July).

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Terrarium: New Ant Hamlyn exhibition explores the human need to preserve things forever

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We've previously seen how his flower sculptures have reflected on memories, magic and mythology , and now he's taken these themes one step further with Terrarium, a new exhibition which runs at Weserhalle until 13 April. Perhaps a suggestion that even the best efforts to preserve beauty are also doomed to fail?

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'I destroy the work after an exhibition': Inside the weird worlds of artist JeeYoung Lee

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South Korean visual artist and designer JeeYoung Lee is returning to London's NOW Gallery with her upcoming exhibition, Maiden Voyage. Inspired by her heritage, this piece meditates on JeeYoung's past and the present, relationships, literature and nature. © JeeYoung Lee. The production for the piece took about a month. © JeeYoung Lee.

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Spin shares its design experiments in Etcetera, a groundbreaking new exhibition

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A new exhibition from London studio Spin isn't quite what you might expect. At Creative Boom, we aim to bring you the best visual inspiration from creative agencies across the world. But why exhibit them as art? There is a phrase that sums up our attitude to making the exhibition succinctly: 'Go hard or go home'.