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. Laib's installations in Belvedere Castle, painstakingly documented in this book, afford access to one of the most privileged and poetical spaces of classic Weimar. Laib transports the space into the present, lending it both a sculptural and an imagistic dimension--the highlights include four wax ships, laid out on a simple support on the ground floor, that look as ...
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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. Laib's installations in Belvedere Castle, painstakingly documented in this book, afford access to one of the most privileged and poetical spaces of classic Weimar. Laib transports the space into the present, lending it both a sculptural and an imagistic dimension--the highlights include four wax ships, laid out on a simple support on the ground floor, that look as though they have been put aside for some later voyage whose destination is as yet uncertain. These magnificent works of art constitute some of the finest examples of Laib's ability to evoke the personal and human as well as the transcendental and the sublime.
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Add this copy of Wolfgang Laib Zwei Orte to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Treehorn Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Rosa, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Hatje Cantz Publishers.
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Very Good+ 3775790233. This book is in excellent condition and very clean. There is no writing, no highlighting, and no marks anywhere inside.; Color and B & W Photographs; 7.9 X 6.1 X 0.3 inches; 56 pages.
Add this copy of Wolfgang Laib: Zwei Orte to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Exquisite Corpse Booksellers rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Houston, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany.
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Near Fine. Book. 8" x 6" Light discoloration and soiling to the paper cover and edges. Published to document the artist's installations at the Belvedere Castle in 1999. Brief essay in German is also translated into English. Unpaginated, but approximately 50 pages with numerous photographs, including a number in full color.
Add this copy of Wolfgang Laib: Two Locations to cart. $54.59, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Hatje Cantz Publishers.
