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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
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Work Title (display):
Pollen from Hazelnut
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1993
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-03-13
Work Creator (display):
Wolfgang Laib (German, born 1950)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
German sculptor. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen (196874). His early experience of medicine was important for his subsequent work, intended to have magical, therapeutic qualities. Although reluctant to admit kinship with other art or artists, a solitariness manifested also in his decision to live and work in a small village in south Germany, he often drew parallels between the healing capacity of his own work and that of Joseph Beuys. His restricted group of materials (pollen, beeswax, rice, marble and milk) were similarly invested with both symbolic and active qualities. His references to Islam, Buddhism, Jainism as well as to Native American and Aboriginal cultures suggest other comparisons with contemporaries such as Lothar Baumgarten. The effect of his scattered pollen installations, vibrant squares and rectangles of this natural substance collected from the countryside around his studio, depends on the contrast between their fragility and vibrancy. Works such as Pollen from Hazelnut (1992, installed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris), impart a subtly powerful focus for contemplation. The long periods spent gathering the various pollens, an activity initiated in 1977, form a seasonal ritual around which Laib's working patterns revolve. He achieves a contrasting but equally meditative effect in his Milkstone sculptures, begun in 1975; these are thin flat marble rectangles, the top surface of which is smoothed to a shallow dish onto which milk is poured. These were followed in 1983 by his first works using rice. In 1987 he began using beeswax, exploiting its strong smell as well as its colour and texture in environments through which the spectator could walk. In one of the most ambitious of these (1994; Halifax; Henry Moore Sculp. Trust studio) he used huge quantities of golden-coloured beeswax to create a passage (9.35 m long, 0.8 m wide) connecting to a chamber (5.84×1.6 m); the strongly evocative atmosphere, compared by the artist himself to ancient burial chambers in Egypt, exemplifies the way in which he uses materials to provoke absorption and meditation. (John-Paul Stonard. "Laib, Wolfgang." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 18 Mar. 2009 .)
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
senses
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senses
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Work Subject:
spirituality
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spirituality
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Work Subject:
silence
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silence
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Work Subject:
pollen
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pollen
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Work Subject:
organic
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organic
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Work Subject:
squares (shapes)
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Work Subject:
nature
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nature
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
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Work Material and Technique (display):
pollen from hazelnut tree
Work Measurements (display):
138 in (H) x141 in (W) x .75 in (D)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
private collection
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. New York: Phaidon Press, 2007.
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Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-0-7148-4314-8
Image Source Reproduction page number:
257
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
256
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ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Galerie Chantal Crousel
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Wolfgang Laib
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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