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17. April 2007 – 16. Juli 2007

WOLFGANG LAIB - Without Beginning, Without End

Wolfgang Laib (Metzinger, Germany, 1952) began his art career in the mid-seventies, after taking a degree in medicine and practising as a doctor for a few years. Through belonging to a family that cultivated an exquisite asceticism and made frequent trips to India and other eastern countries, he became interested from a very early age in religion and mysticism, which led him to study oriental cultures and languages and find in art the means of knowing and expressing his vision of the world. Since then his work has been characterized by great formal purity and austerity. He uses natural materials with a strong symbolic and vital content unrelated to those generally found in art -beeswax, milk, pollen and rice- to create an encounter between art, nature and spirituality. His pieces are conceived as a ritual, an integral process linked to a cosmic order, to the mysticism of nature, which different cultures and religions have developed. In an attempt to preserve a sense of purity connected to natural order, each work follows a cyclical procedure which involves collecting the materials during specific seasons and in certain places, assembling them meticulously for exhibition in the manner of a liturgical celebration, their daily maintenance and, finally, recycling the elements of which they are made. A cyclical ritual in which each piece is renewed again and again, the circle widening with other new works as the years pass.

WOLFGANG LAIB - Without Beginning, Without End

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