Oliver Laric
09 Mar - 14 Apr 2012
© Oliver Laric
'Fish Spa', 2012
Victorian-era 'chinoiserie' chair emulating Chinese design and two aquariums filled with Gara Rufa fish
83 x 37 x 143 cm
Unique
'Fish Spa', 2012
Victorian-era 'chinoiserie' chair emulating Chinese design and two aquariums filled with Gara Rufa fish
83 x 37 x 143 cm
Unique
OLIVER LARIC
Be Water My Friend
9 March – 14 April 2012
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. That water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend.
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Oliver Laric (born 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. Be Water My Friend is his first solo show in Germany. His newest video work 'Versions' (2012) will premiere at Art Statements, Art|43|Basel (14-17 June 2012). He has been commissioned to create a new public sculpture for the High Line, New York. Selected forthcoming group exhibitions include: Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Artspace, Auckland; and New Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Diamond Grill, Seventeen Gallery, London (2011); Kopienkritik, Skulpturhalle Basel (2011); Versions, Frieze
Art Fair, London (2010); and 山寨 Shanzhai Turbo, Western Front, Vancouver (2010).
Selected group exhibitions include Momentum – The 6th Nordic Biennial 2011, Moss, Norway (2011); Memery, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2011); A Secret Understanding, Kunsthaus Graz (2009); and Unmonumental, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2008). Laric is a co-founder of the VVORK platform (www.vvork.com).
With special thanks to: Red Bull and HIS Church
Be Water My Friend
9 March – 14 April 2012
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. That water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend.
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Oliver Laric (born 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. Be Water My Friend is his first solo show in Germany. His newest video work 'Versions' (2012) will premiere at Art Statements, Art|43|Basel (14-17 June 2012). He has been commissioned to create a new public sculpture for the High Line, New York. Selected forthcoming group exhibitions include: Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Artspace, Auckland; and New Museum, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Diamond Grill, Seventeen Gallery, London (2011); Kopienkritik, Skulpturhalle Basel (2011); Versions, Frieze
Art Fair, London (2010); and 山寨 Shanzhai Turbo, Western Front, Vancouver (2010).
Selected group exhibitions include Momentum – The 6th Nordic Biennial 2011, Moss, Norway (2011); Memery, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2011); A Secret Understanding, Kunsthaus Graz (2009); and Unmonumental, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2008). Laric is a co-founder of the VVORK platform (www.vvork.com).
With special thanks to: Red Bull and HIS Church