Wolfgang Laib Fotografien
9 Sep—8 Oct 2011

Wolfgang Laib Fotografien

9 Sep—8 Oct 2011
Buchmann Galerie
Press release

The relationships between my drawings, photographs, and sculptural works are extremely close and complex at the same time. The photographs are often like sketches, or they record something that might suddenly appear in my work only years later in some cases. Wolfgang Laib 

 

Wolfgang Laib’s photographs provide a view into the center of his thinking as an artist. The viewer encounters in them an interpretive aid for the oeuvre as a whole. Again and again, the photographs offer poetic, encoded insights into his world of ideas and clues to the travels he has made to countries in the Near and Far East since 1965. 

 

A powerful semantic charge is an integral part of Wolfgang Laib’s photographs. They cannot be isolated, neither in the form of a deliberate photographic concept on the part of the artist nor in the viewer’s reflection on them. By means of his photographs, Wolfgang Laib enables direct comparisons of the minimalist formal idiom of his sculpture to the architectural forms of East Asian cultures. Their concentration on recurring motifs expresses a search for the essential and elemental. 

 

Wolfgang Laib’s photographs have been shown at the Folkwang Museum Essen, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the Haus der Kunst in Munich, among other places. 

 

MoMA in New York is planning a large Wolfgang Laib exhibition for spring 2012. 

 

For further information on the artist or for images of the works in the exhibition, please do not hesitate to contact the gallery at any time. 

Wolfgang Laib

Born 1950 in Metzingen. Lives and works in Southern Germany.

Education
1968-1974 Studied Medicine University of Tuebingen
Grants and Awards

2015 Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture, The Japan Art Foundation

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Selected Collections

Kunstmuseum Bonn 

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Kolumba Diözesanmuseum, Cologne

Centre Pompidou, Paris 

CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux 

Collections de l’Etat Français, France

Musée d’art contempoarin, Nîmes, France

Musée départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart 

Museé de Grenoble

Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin 

De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Kunsthaus, Zürich

LAC Museum of Contemporary Art, Lugano

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

The Art Institute of Chicago 

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

San Francisco Museum of Art

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Toyota Municipal Art Museum, Toyota