Wolfgang Laib Wax Room

German artist wolfgang laib b.

Wolfgang laib wax room.

The opening to what was once a small storage closet has been narrowed to better frame views of wolfgang laib s wax room a new and permanent installation at the phillips collection the old. 39 was created in 1994 by wolfgang laib in conceptual art style. We are transported inside a beehive but instead of swarming bees we find ourselves. The sights smells and practically the taste consume our senses.

A major solo exhibition of his work was presented at masi lugano in switzerland in 2017 18. Wolfgang laib was born in 1950 in metzingen germany. A wax room for a mountain for parkett no. Created in 2013 the laib wax room lined with fragrant beeswax and illuminated by a single bare light bulb is the first permanently installed artwork at the phillips since the rothko room in 1960.

Instead of dripping honey we find a solitary hanging lightbulb. One of your most recent projects involves an actual mountain a wax room for the mountain. In 2013 laib s pollen from hazelnut was on view at the museum of modern art new york and the laib wax room opened at the phillips collection in march of the same year. German artist wolfgang laib b.

It would be a. Photo by rhiannon newman. Wolfgang laib a 63 year old conceptual artist from germany created the meditative space. 1950 installed the work in a space he helped to select in the original phillips house.

1950 for a specific museum. A conversation with wolfgang laib by sarah tanguy. You have described it as a small space dug out of the rock on a mountainside having the dimensions of a human being entirely covered in beeswax and with a small wooden door. Lined with fragrant beeswax and illuminated by a single bare light bulb wax room 2013 is the first permanent wax room created by german artist wolfgang laib b.

1950 installs a wax room at the phillips collection the first permanently installed artwork at the phillips since the rothko room in 1960 and the first wax room. Wolfgang laib installing the wax room. Wolfgang laib s wax room immerses us in a space covered in beeswax.