Wolfgang Laib: The Beginning of Something Else

Offers new insight into the artist’s sources and his creative process. Wolfgang Laib is a German artist, primarily known as a sculptor, whose work asks questions about how we deal with the natural world. This book offers new insight into some of the sources and drivers of his creative process. It brings together a group of texts that have long held particular importance for Laib’s thinking and work, including passages from Gilgamesh, a poem by the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma, thoughts and aph...