Photos from the installation Sem eira nem beira, by Rodrigo Bueno and atelier Mata Adentro, part of the exhibit Ponto de equilíbrio.
Ponto de Equilíbrio
Curators: Agnaldo Farias and Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
Instituto Tomie Othake
Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 201, São Paulo, Brazil
September 20-November 14
From November 5, 2010 until April 11, 2011, the Rubin Museum of Art will be presenting Grain of emptiness: Buddhist inspired contemporary art, with works by Sanford Biggers, Theaster Gates, Atta Kim, Wolfgang Laib, and Charmion von Wiegand. The exhibition has been highlighted by New York Magazine as one of the “most anticipated shows of fall”, with “meditative installations from German conceptualist Wolfgang Laib; Atta Kim’s photographs of a melting Buddha ice sculpture; and Theaster Gates’s short film of African-American Buddhist monks partaking in their morning rituals.”
Wolfgang Laib at Fondazione Merz (Turin).
If you collect pollen from a meadow or in the forest for day after day for one or two months and afterwards you have a jar that’s not even full, this is something completely different from what everybody else does. It’s even beyond spiritual practice. You don’t need a name for it. For me, it’s something that challenges everything else; what I do or what I could do. It enables a totally different idea of what a day is, or what your life is about, or what work could be or what you would like to achieve. […]
I studied medicine before and I have a full doctor’s degree. Some people think that has nothing to do with my art but I think that it has a lot to do with my art. What I searched for in medicine and what I couldn’t find, I hope to find with my artworks, with my life. I think that I never changed my profession. I just did what I’m now doing, what I wanted to do as a doctor. But I also feel (and most people think that this is very naive) that art has much more power than medicine. I mean, medicine is very important for us, but it’s just about the physical body, and it doesn’t stretch far beyond that. If art is really good it can include everything. It’s the most important thing. That’s why I became an artist and didn’t become a monk or work as a doctor. Art is most important and therefore I would call myself an artist and what I do art. […]I strongly believe art has the potential to change the world, as naive as it might sound. If you think of the history, and if you look back at culture, it has always changed mankind. From day to day or year to year it may have been the politicians who marched into another country or did this and that, but eventually it was culture which somehow brought mankind to somewhere else.
Wolfgang Laib: Without Place―Without Time―Without Body
Weak as the monument, strong as the echo was the name of an exhibition by Wolfgang Laib and Harald Zseemann (1985).
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