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. ...
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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.
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Good. Minimal signs of wear. Corners and cover may show wear. May contain highlighting and or writing. May be missing dust jacket. May not include supplemental materials. May be a former library book.
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Fine Condition. No Jacket. Book 203 pages with 144 illustrations 86 in color. Crisp, tight, sharp and clean condition. Hardcover, bound in illustrated paper covered boards and issued without a dustjacket. Text in English and well illustrated in color. A Conversation Between the Artist and Harald Szeemann. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC October 26, 2000-January 22, 2001, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA February 13-May 6, 2001, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX May 29-September 2, 2001, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ October 5-December 30, 2001, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla and San Diego, CA January 25-April 21, 2002 and the Haus der Kunst, Munich Germany October 8, 2002-January 5, 2003. List of Illustrations. Bibliography.
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Very Good in Fine jacket. Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000. Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. Well-kept ex-library copy with minimal labels and stamps. Insides looking bright & new. Protective wrapper on jacket. Oversize. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library..
