Wolfgang Laib. A Retrospective

This gorgeous retrospective of Wolfgang Laib's work offers us a key to fully appreciating his complex and transcendent body of work.
Wolfgang Laib lives and works closely with the cycles of nature. His works are composed of natural materials that he collects and processes himself. In 1975, Wolfgang Laib created his first milk stone, in 1977, he started sifting pollen into "color miracles," brightly colored fields of pollen, or piling it into small "unsurmountable mountains"; in 1983, he began incorporating rice into his works; and in 1987, beeswax became a signature working material. Both sensual and fragile, his works project aesthetic as well as natural aspects of the transitory nature of our surroundings.
Texts by Klaus Ottmann and Margit Rowell, a conversation between the artist and Harald Szeemann and an illustrated biography make for the most comprehensive study of Wolfgang Laib's art and philosophy. (German edition available Fall 2002)