Indien
18 Jan - 09 Mar 2013
INDIEN - FOTOGRAFIEN UND SKULPTUREN - WOLFGANG LAIB, RICHARD LONG, GREGOR SCHNEIDER
18 January - 9 March 2013
Konrad Fischer Galerie gladly presents the exhibition INDIA within the framework of Dusseldorf Photo Weekend.
Within their ouevres, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long and Gregor Schneider mainly focus on sculpture. While Long and Schneider use photography for documenting their partly temporary and ephemeral projects, Laib also depicts religious traditions and their architectural witnesses in India. Being the initial sources for his artworks, Wolfgang Laib transforms these ancient motifs into sculpture, preferably made of beeswax, pollen, milk, rice, marble, brass and sealing-wax. In 1975 the first milkstones have been created followed by pollen collected in his South-German home in 1975, rice-works in 1983 and beeswax in 1987. Since 1984 the artist introduces sculptural pieces calld stairs, rice houses and ships made of beeswax, guilded brass, laquered wood, granite and marble With their elementary and simple forms, these artworks refer to traditional archetypes, to altar pieces, memorial shrines and ritual places in India.
Upcoming is Wolfgang Laib’s largest pollen installation ever made, presented by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on 22 January 2013.
Richard Long’s „Paths“ has been already introduced within the 2003 exhibition „Dialogue: Richard Long and Jivya Soma Mashe“ at museum kunst palast in Dusseldorf. The joint work originates from a journey to Mashe’s home village in India. With respect to the tribal artist, Long wanted to do a more reticent work by minimal interventions like brushstrokes made with brooms, works made of ashes and curcuma and chili powder dispersed into a river.
Invited by the Goethe Institute, Max Mueller Bhavan and the Ekdalia Evergreen Club Kolkata, Gregor Schneider installed his large-scale artwork „It’s All Rheydt, Kolkata“ – a „copy“ of a vernacular German street from Schneider’s hometown Moenchengladbach-Rheydt mounted on typical Indian bamboo scaffolding and erected vertically in Kolkata’s Ekdalia Road. During Durga Puja – the largest carnival-like celebration of Kolkata’s (Calcutta) local goddess Durga and the biggest Hindu festivity worlwide – the artist’s street served as Pandal, a ritual place in which sculptures of the goddess made of clay, straw, bamboo and paper have been placed. These sculptures are customarily plunged into the nearby river Hooghly. Our exhibition includes documentary material showing the Durga Puja celebrations and Gregor Schneider’s installation as well as the original sculptures retrieved from the river by the artist.
18 January - 9 March 2013
Konrad Fischer Galerie gladly presents the exhibition INDIA within the framework of Dusseldorf Photo Weekend.
Within their ouevres, Wolfgang Laib, Richard Long and Gregor Schneider mainly focus on sculpture. While Long and Schneider use photography for documenting their partly temporary and ephemeral projects, Laib also depicts religious traditions and their architectural witnesses in India. Being the initial sources for his artworks, Wolfgang Laib transforms these ancient motifs into sculpture, preferably made of beeswax, pollen, milk, rice, marble, brass and sealing-wax. In 1975 the first milkstones have been created followed by pollen collected in his South-German home in 1975, rice-works in 1983 and beeswax in 1987. Since 1984 the artist introduces sculptural pieces calld stairs, rice houses and ships made of beeswax, guilded brass, laquered wood, granite and marble With their elementary and simple forms, these artworks refer to traditional archetypes, to altar pieces, memorial shrines and ritual places in India.
Upcoming is Wolfgang Laib’s largest pollen installation ever made, presented by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on 22 January 2013.
Richard Long’s „Paths“ has been already introduced within the 2003 exhibition „Dialogue: Richard Long and Jivya Soma Mashe“ at museum kunst palast in Dusseldorf. The joint work originates from a journey to Mashe’s home village in India. With respect to the tribal artist, Long wanted to do a more reticent work by minimal interventions like brushstrokes made with brooms, works made of ashes and curcuma and chili powder dispersed into a river.
Invited by the Goethe Institute, Max Mueller Bhavan and the Ekdalia Evergreen Club Kolkata, Gregor Schneider installed his large-scale artwork „It’s All Rheydt, Kolkata“ – a „copy“ of a vernacular German street from Schneider’s hometown Moenchengladbach-Rheydt mounted on typical Indian bamboo scaffolding and erected vertically in Kolkata’s Ekdalia Road. During Durga Puja – the largest carnival-like celebration of Kolkata’s (Calcutta) local goddess Durga and the biggest Hindu festivity worlwide – the artist’s street served as Pandal, a ritual place in which sculptures of the goddess made of clay, straw, bamboo and paper have been placed. These sculptures are customarily plunged into the nearby river Hooghly. Our exhibition includes documentary material showing the Durga Puja celebrations and Gregor Schneider’s installation as well as the original sculptures retrieved from the river by the artist.