Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective - Hardcover

Ottman, Klaus; Rowell, Margit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775709452 ISBN 13: 9783775709453

Publisher: Hatje Cantz, 2000

Synopsis

Wolfgang Laib's breathtaking and quietly beautiful artwork draws on the ritual life he leads in and with nature and its processes of becoming and forgetting. His works are composed of purely natural materials, collected and processed by the artist himself in the 70s, he created his first milk stone, and then moved on to sifting pollen into "color miracles" or piling it into "insurmountable mountains"; in the 80s, he began to incorporate rice into his pieces; and towards the end of the decade he began working in beeswax. This gorgeous retrospective of his work -- with texts by Klaus Ottman and Margit Rowell, and interview between the artist and Harold Szeeman -- offers us a key to fully appreciating his complex and transcendent body of work.

About this title

Synopsis:

The art of Wolfgang Laib is based on his life among nature, and is composed of purely natural materials that have been collected and processed by Laib himself. This volume presents an illustrated biography of the sculptor, including an interview by Harald Szeemann.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 3775709452
• ISBN 13: 9783775709453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212