Wolfgang Laib

"I’m living very isolated outside of a small village – it is, maybe, like on an island – isolated from people, from society, but also from art and artists. For me it is very important to be independent and to be forced to do my own things.

Interview

The emergence of the first Rice Houses, since 1984 and after, marks a new phase on the artist’s course. Indeed, together with Milkstones and Pollen, these new works indicate a new dimension, more plastic compared to the former ones, this time with a direct reference to a pre-existing pattern: the house…

The Five Mountains Not to Climb On

Wolfgang Laib finds spirituality in the simplicity of everyday, organic substances—milk, pollen, beeswax, rice—that provide sustenance or engender life. In 1975 he created his first Milkstone in what has become an ongoing series of elemental sculptures. A rectangular block of polished white marble containing a slight depression on its upper surface, the piece is filled with a thin layer of milk to foster the illusion of a solid form…