ART WORK
How Low Can You Go?
GERMAN ARTIST WOLFGANG LAIB LIVES in a remote village in the Black Forest. Each spring and summer he wanders the fields and forests near his home, patiently collecting pollen from dandelions, hazelnut trees, and other local flora. He uses the deep orange and yellow grains, stored in glass jars, to create powerfully simple, elegant artworks.
The Five Mountains Not to Climb On is a row of five small piles of hazelnut pollen sitting on the floor. Pollen from Dandelion is an enormous glowing square of, well, dandelion pollen. Laib’s works are about as low-tech and DIY as possible; he hand-gathers ubiquitous, but seldom seen (if often sensed!), materials in enormous quantities, and then presents them ...
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