Wolfgang Laib
dal 28/1/2002 al 19/5/2002
Segnalato da
28/1/2002
Wolfgang Laib
MCASD La Jolla, San Diego
A retrospective. Since the mid-1970s, Laib has created individual objects and installations of austere beauty, using marble and organic elements such as milk, pollen, rice, and beeswax.
A deeply spiritual relationship with nature and commitment to eastern
philosophies of purity and simplicity characterize the works of the German
sculptor Wolfgang Laib. Since the mid-1970s, Laib has created individual
objects and installations of austere beauty, using marble and organic elements
such as milk, pollen, rice, and beeswax.
Surveying 25 years of his artistic production, this traveling retrospective will, for
the first time, introduce the complete range of the artist's work to new audiences
in the United States. Other works included will be The Rice Meals (1993),
consisting of rice and pollen heaped on brass plates commonly used in India to
bring food and flowers to the temple; several "rice houses," sculpted from red
sealing wax or white marble surrounded by rice; an example of Laib's "wax
rooms," built with large panels of scented beeswax; and his most recent body of
work featuring beeswax "ships," which the artists often installs in a serial
progression on wooden scaffolding inspired by his visit to Tibetan monasteries.
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