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title: "Wit and irony as an artistic strategy"
date: 2016-04-20
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/wit-and-irony-as-an-artistic-strategy-context-en/"
description: "No cold collation would be complete without pickled cucumbers: on Erwin Wurm’s work “Selbstporträt als Essiggurkerl”."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HEader_Erwin_Wurm_Schirn_MAgazin.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Wit and irony as an artistic strategy