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    Artwork Survey: 2000s

    Wolfgang Laib
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    • Milkstone
      1998–2001
      Marble and milk
      62 ⅓ × 28 ¾ × 23 ¼ inches

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Rice House
      2009
      Marble and rice
      8 ¼ × 4 ½ × 39 inches

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Temple Water Basin near Sharvana Belgola, South India
      2001
      Gelatin silver print
      8 × 10 inches

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Zikkurat / Ziggurat
      2003
      Burmese red lacquer on wood
      94 × 124 ⅘ × 26 inches

      Photo: Helge Kirchberger

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Es gibt keinen Anfang und kein Ende / There Is No Beginning and No End
      1999–2001
      Beeswax, wooden understructure
      244 × 51 ⅛ × 224 ½ each

      Installation view: Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2002–2003

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Untitled
      2005
      Three guard houses on wood panel
      23 ⅝ × 19 ⅔ × 55 ⅛ inches

      Photo: Johansen Krause

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Treppe / Stairs
      2006
      Burmese black lacquer on wood
      98 ½ × 63 ⅕ × 22 inches

      Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Wohin gehst Du?/Where are you going?
      2007
      Four triangles: Indian granite, turmeric, soot, and oil
      25 ⅗ × 31 ½ × 4 inches, 30 × 30 × 4 ⅓ inches, 21 × 15 × 4 ⅓ inches, 21 × 27 ½ × 3 inches

      Photo: Helge Kirchberger

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Untitled
      2007
      Eight triangles from beeswax, wood construction
      each triangle 149 ⅗ × 59 × 19 ⅔ inches overall, each triangle 16 ½–17 ⅓ × 21 ⅔ × 11 ⅘ inches

      Photo: Helge Kirchberger

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Ohne Zeit - ohne Ort - ohne Körper / Without Time - Without Place - Without Body
      2007
      Rice mounds, three mounds of hazelnut pollen
      15 ½ × 13 ½ feet

      Photo: Helge Kirchberger

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Rice House
      2007–08
      Black Indian granite, black smoke, sunflower oil, rice
      6 × 5 ½ × 34 ¼ inches

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • The cobra snakes are coming out of the well at night - or - : from me alone all has risen, in me all exists, in me all dissolves (kaivalya upanisad)
      2007–08
      233 clay pots with ashes on three metal tables, 100 oil lamps on two metal trays, nine snakes out of metal
      2 ⅙ × 2 ⅝ × 28 feet overall

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • The cobra snakes are coming out of the well at night - or - : from me alone all has risen, in me all exists, in me all dissolves (kaivalya upanisad)
      detail
      2007–08
      233 clay pots with ashes on three metal tables, 100 oil lamps on two metal trays, nine snakes out of metal
      2 ⅙ × 2 ⅝ × 28 feet overall

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Untitled
      2007/08
      Five metal snakes
      heights: 83 ½, 66, 55, 41 ¼, 30 ¾ inches

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Untitled
      2008
      Pencil and oil pastel on paper
      15 × 10 ⅚ inches

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Rice House
      2007–2008
      Red Indian granite, butter with red pigment, rice
      6 ⅔ × 4 × 27 ½ inches

      Installation view: Gian Enzo Sperone, Sent, Switzerland, 2009

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Exhibition view: "Wolfgang Laib"
      2009

      Gian Enzo Sperone, Sent, Switzerland

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Pensatoio
      2009
      Wax chamber, beeswax
      approximately 8 × 10 × 19 feet

      Installation view: Gian Enzo Sperone, Sent, Switzerland, 2009

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Mahayagna, Fondazione Merz, Torino
      performance view
      2009

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Mahayagna, Fondazione Merz, Torino
      performance views
      2009

      © Wolfgang Laib

    • Without Beginning and Without End
      foreground
      2005
      Beeswax, wooden understructure
      14 ½ × 3 ¼ × 14 ⅓ feet

      Back: The Wall of Passage, 2013; Brass ships, rice, wood and steel; 6 ¾ x 71–161 x 12 inches each

      © Wolfgang Laib

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