"Wolfgang Laib : Passageway" an exhibition of drawings & sculptural installations at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony > 9th November-17th December 2012
Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Sunday closed) 
Entry : Free
Place : Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
Venue Info : www.vadehraart.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lajpat Nagar(Violet Line)'
Event Details : Vadehra Art Gallery in association with the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) and the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi invites you to the opening of 'Wolfgang Laib : Passageway' in the presence of the artist, H.E. Michael Steiner, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to India and Mr. Ronald Grätz, General Secretary, Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa)
Wolfgang Laib’s works are studies of form, colour and material. Over a career spanning 37 years, the artist has evolved his practice through subtle variations and reductions. His aesthetic is minimalist and symbolic, and derives from his strong conviction that life and art need to be approached from a holistic perspective.
Laib’s practice concerns itself with exploring natural material such as beeswax, pollen, rice, stone etc. to create artworks that are tactile and draw strongly on archetypal associations. Passageway provides us with an overview of the acclaimed artist’s body of work. Apart from a suite of 12 new drawings, some key sculptural installations like I Am Not Here and Milkstone will be on view.
The exhibition will also include the highly acclaimed Pollen from Pine (1999) and Laib will be creating a larger version of this titled Pollen from Hazelnut at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, early next year.
About the Artist : Wolfgang Laib’s work has been exhibited extensively, beginning in 1982 with his participation in Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany. In 1986 his first official solo exhibition was held in the Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. Laib has been the focus of major exhibitions in the Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (1992), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (1999/2000), the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2002), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2002/03), Fondation Beyeler Riehen, Basel, Switzerland (2005/06), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
His most recent exhibitions have included the retrospective Without Place-Without Time-Without Body at the Musée de Grenoble, France, in the summer of 2008 and the critically acclaimed Wolfgang Laib: Fire Ritual held in the summer of 2009 at the Fondazione Merz in Turin, Italy. He was also the subject of major retrospectives in Latin America, including Pasotraspaso at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City in 2009 and Sin principio - sin fin, Museo Nacional de Arte de La Paz in Bolivia in 2010.
In early 2013, Wolfgang Laib’s Pollen from Hazelnut will inhabit the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium at MoMA, New York. He will also create the first permanently installed wax room in a museum at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
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Entry : Free
Place : Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
Venue Info : www.vadehraart.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lajpat Nagar(Violet Line)'
Event Details : Vadehra Art Gallery in association with the Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa) and the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi invites you to the opening of 'Wolfgang Laib : Passageway' in the presence of the artist, H.E. Michael Steiner, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to India and Mr. Ronald Grätz, General Secretary, Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa)
Wolfgang Laib’s works are studies of form, colour and material. Over a career spanning 37 years, the artist has evolved his practice through subtle variations and reductions. His aesthetic is minimalist and symbolic, and derives from his strong conviction that life and art need to be approached from a holistic perspective.
Laib’s practice concerns itself with exploring natural material such as beeswax, pollen, rice, stone etc. to create artworks that are tactile and draw strongly on archetypal associations. Passageway provides us with an overview of the acclaimed artist’s body of work. Apart from a suite of 12 new drawings, some key sculptural installations like I Am Not Here and Milkstone will be on view.
The exhibition will also include the highly acclaimed Pollen from Pine (1999) and Laib will be creating a larger version of this titled Pollen from Hazelnut at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, early next year.
About the Artist : Wolfgang Laib’s work has been exhibited extensively, beginning in 1982 with his participation in Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany. In 1986 his first official solo exhibition was held in the Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. Laib has been the focus of major exhibitions in the Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (1992), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (1999/2000), the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2002), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2002/03), Fondation Beyeler Riehen, Basel, Switzerland (2005/06), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
His most recent exhibitions have included the retrospective Without Place-Without Time-Without Body at the Musée de Grenoble, France, in the summer of 2008 and the critically acclaimed Wolfgang Laib: Fire Ritual held in the summer of 2009 at the Fondazione Merz in Turin, Italy. He was also the subject of major retrospectives in Latin America, including Pasotraspaso at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City in 2009 and Sin principio - sin fin, Museo Nacional de Arte de La Paz in Bolivia in 2010.
In early 2013, Wolfgang Laib’s Pollen from Hazelnut will inhabit the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium at MoMA, New York. He will also create the first permanently installed wax room in a museum at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
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"Wolfgang Laib : Passageway" an exhibition of drawings & sculptural installations at Vadehra Art Gallery, D-53 Defence Colony > 9th November-17th December 2012
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