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Max Mueller Bhavan | India Chennai

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6:00 PM

Wolfgang Laib - Here, Now and Far Beyond

Film & Discussion|Prelude to March | Dance

  • Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium, Chennai

  • German Film with English Subtitles
  • Free entry. All are welcome!

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The film will be followed by a discussion moderated by Parvathi Nayar, Visual Artist from Chennai, with Wolfgang Laib.

Wolfgang Laib - Here, Now and Far Beyond 
Duration: 81 min.
Written and directed by Maria Anna Tappeiner

The work of Wolfgang Laib is extremely present and at the same time seems to have fallen out of time. Nature, art and life combine in his work to form a gesamtkunstwerk. Since the 1970s, the artist has concentrated on a few essential materials such as pollen, milk, rice or bee wax, which he presents in the greatest possible simplicity and beauty. At the same time, his works contain philosophical and epistemological levels that refer to various ancient cultures. Thus, the work, located in the here and now, in our fast-paced, stimulus-flooded time creates a reflection on the essential and points far beyond itself.

Credits:
Written and directed by Maria Anna Tappeiner
Camera: Ion Casado, Florian Krause
Editing: Tom Weichenhain
Producer: Wolf Truchsess, Westend Film & TV Produktion, Frankfurt
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Commissioned by the Stiftung Kunstmuseum Stuttgart gGmbH © 2023


Wolfgang Laib born in Metzingen, Germany is a German artist, predominantly known as a sculptor. He lives and works in a small village in southern Germany, maintaining studios in New York and Madurai, Tamilnadu (India). His work has been exhibited worldwide in many of the most important galleries and museums. He represented Germany in the 1982, Venice Biennale and was included with his works in the Documenta 7 in 1982, and then in the Documenta 8 in 1987. In 2015, he received the Praemium Imperiale for sculpture in Tokyo, Japan. He became world-renowned for his "Milkstones", a pure geometry of white marble made complete with milk, as well as his vibrant installations of pollen. In 2013 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City presented his largest pollen piece – 7 m × 8 m – in the central atrium of the museum.