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Galerie LelongDirectors : Jean Frémon, Daniel LelongGallery creadon’s year: 1981www.galerie-­‐lelong.cominfo@galerie-­‐lelong.com+33 1 45 63 13 1913 rue de Téhéran75008 ParisWolfgang Laib, The cobra snakes are coming out of the well at night, 2010. Pencil and oil pastel on paper , 52 x 42 cm. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, ParisFocus ardst : Wolfgang Laib, born in 1950Others ardsts exhibited on the booth: Pierre Alechinsky, Barry Flanagan, David Nash, Jaume Plensa, Kiki Smith, Barthélémy Toguo, Jan VossPrices of the works: from 2 500 € to 50 000 €Wolfgang Laib is well known for his use of wax, pollen and milk in pure, simple shapes which are ogen inspired by oriental cultures. They invite to meditadon. Ager medical school and many trips to India he creates his first Milkstones in the sevendes, and starts working with pollen.He pardcipates to Documenta Cassel in 1982 and the same year he represents Germany at the Venice Biennale. In 1984 he creates his first Houses of Rice and starts using bees wax in 1987 to make sculptures in the shape of triangles or boats. In 1993 the Bonn Kunstmuseum holds a significant retrospecdve exhibidon of his work. Ager traveling to Mesopotamia, China, Korea, he has a show at Carré d’Art in Nîmes in 1999, then starts working on the Waxroom -­‐ La Chambre des Cerdtudes, a cave in the Pyrénées mountains which he covers with bees wax. In 2005 and 2006 the MACRO in Rome and Beyeler Foundadon in Basel host important exhibidons of his work, as well as the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid in 2007. The Grenoble Museum organizes in 2008 the biggest retrospecdve to-­‐date in France. Between January and March 2013, an exhibidon at MoMA New York features a large square made with hazelnut pollen which Laib collected over the past twelve years.Wolfgang Laib’s drawings bear the same energy as the sculptures. Elementary shapes with bright colors, made of yellow or red oil pastel, refer to pollen and wax while they are opposed to thin pencil lines.Presse mappe I Seite 46