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WOLFGANG LAIB.(Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden exhibition)(Brief Article)
Artforum International, January, 2001 by GRUNDBERG, ANDY
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Wolfgang Laib, whose largest US retrospective to date began its tour at the Hirshhorn in October, is an artist of particular import for a historical moment when "sensation" and "brilliance" have become merely hyperbolic synonyms for "the new." What Laib's work offers is sensation in the purely perceptual sense of the word, a kind of ecological ethic that aspires to supplant what the artist sees as the rational, mediated mind-set of Western culture. It is brilliant, but its brilliance is of a decidedly organic, Zen cast.
Laib was trained in medicine in ...
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