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Wolfgang Laib (born 1950 in Germany) is considered to be one of the
most important artists of today. His work is characterized by a
profound relationship with nature and a declared belief in
simplicity. Eastern philosophies from India have also shaped his
life and his artistic practice since the 1970s. The artist
continues today to concentrate on just a few cyclical groups of
work. Ever since his journeys to India as a young man, Wolfgang
Laib has been inspired by the idea of seeing humans as part of a
larger whole. He also follows this way of life in his art: he
tracks down the universal, the eternal, and works with natural
materials such as pollen, rice, milk or bees wax. At the Bundner
Kunstmuseum, he presents an extensive, room-sized installation made
up of thousands of tiny rice mountains. An important foodstuff,
rice symbolizes vitality and is fundamental for our earthly
existence. The process of creating this work of art is revealed in
the book and is related to a conversation between Wolfgang Laib and
the internationally renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. With
this book, Wolfgang Laib reveals the spiritual dimension of art and
leads us directly to the sources of his poetics.
Photographer and artist Andrea Garbald (1877-1958) dedicated an
important part of his oeuvre to the women of his native Val
Bregaglia, in the Swiss canton of Grisons. As the first and, for a
long time, the only photographer in the valley, he ran his own
photo studio in addition to an optician's store in the village of
Castasegna. Yet instead of making his artistic work public, Garbald
kept his it in his attic. His estate was only discovered in the
mid-1980s and displayed in public for the first time in 2014 in a
major exhibition. Andrea Garbald's portraits collected in this
volume show women of different ages and social classes and go far
beyond the stiff official portraits that were common at the time.
The sitters' posture, clothes, faces, and their eyes speak volumes:
the photographs demonstrate a special intimacy and empathy towards
the people portrayed. At the same time, they reveal the development
of the medium and its visual language. This new book provides an
in-depth look at Garbald's unusual oeuvre and offers an insight
into the subtle creativity of this local pioneer. Text in Italian
and German.
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Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger: Copain
Gerda Steiner, Jörg Lenzlinger; Edited by Pius Tschumi; Text written by Reto Bühler, Anna Bürkli, …
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