When one thinks of German artist Wolfgang Laib, it's hard not to conjure an image of a yellow sea of pollen. The conceptual icon, known for his spiritual takes on natural media as art, has incorporated the vivid golden aesthetic of pollen into his expansive, site-specific installations since the 1970s. Like a blanket of pure pigment unwrapped onto a museum floor, his works prove pollen itself -- not the process of collecting microgametophytes, nor the act of honoring them -- is the artwork. Laib...
When one thinks of German artist Wolfgang Laib, it's hard not to conjure an image of a yellow sea of pollen. The conceptual icon, known for his spiritual takes on natural media as art, has incorporated the vivid golden aesthetic of pollen into his expansive, site-specific installations since the 1970s. Like a blanket of pure pigment unwrapped onto a museum floor, his works prove pollen itself -- not the process of collecting microgametophytes, nor the act of honoring them -- is the artwork. Laib...
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