Wolfgang Laib, Sperone Westwater, NYC

Wolfgang Laib: Nowhere-Everywhere 
Sperone Westwater, New York
2 May - 13 June 1998

Sperone Westwater announces an exhibition by WOLFGANG LAIB.

The artist presents a new installation of ziggurat-like forms in beeswax, which will fill the gallery from floor to ceiling concealing various architectural details of the gallery space. The exhibition also features Rice House, 1996, a five-foot long marble floor sculpture in the shape of a house surrounded by mounds of white rice. The ziggurat and the house are primary structures, reflecting the artist's interest in pre-modern and non-western dwellings and spiritual places.

Born in 1950 in Metzingen, Germany, WOLFGANG LAIB originally studied medicine at the University of Tübingen. Disillusioned with Western medicine and science, he came to view the natural sciences as limited in their dependency on logic and the material world. His search for something else led him to Eastern spiritualism, philosophy, and pre-Renaissance thought. Since 1975, Wolfgang Laib has worked exclusively as an artist and has built an international reputation. A one-person exhibition was recently held at The Arts Club of Chicago. Wolfang Laib has held solo shows at the Capc/Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (1986 and 1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1989), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1990), the Centre George Pompidou, Paris (1992), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn (1993). In the past year he participated in the Venice Biennale. His work was also included in Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, which was organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and traveled to the Hayward Gallery, London. His work can be found in museum collections worldwide.

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