The intervening time


  • Photographer
    Cuno Graf von Hahn
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    09.07.2014

About the serie: The photograph serie was taken at Herrenchiemsee Palace, Germany which exhibit the latest pollen-installation by the artist Wolfgang Laib. The pollen for this installation has been collected by Laib from the natural environment around his home and studio in a small village in southern Germany, since the mid-1990s. To present his work, Laib sieves pollen directly onto the floor, creating a ground of radiant color that is at once material and immaterial. This physically demanding activity involves devotion and discipline, plenty of time, labor and ritual. The power of Laib’s work lies in its simplicity and meditative power rather than in its diversity. The challenge for me was to capture images which describe this spiritual moment and meditative mood during his solitary ceremony phase. I wanted to visualize the continuous communication between the artist and his artwork. Therefore it was more important to focus on the process of this artistic creation than seeing the finished artwork.

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About the serie:
The photograph serie was taken at Herrenchiemsee Palace, Germany which exhibit the latest pollen-installation by the artist Wolfgang Laib. The pollen for this installation has been collected by Laib from the natural environment around his home and studio in a small village in southern Germany, since the mid-1990s. To present his work, Laib sieves pollen directly onto the floor, creating a ground of radiant color that is at once material and immaterial. This physically demanding activity involves devotion and discipline, plenty of time, labor and ritual. The power of Laib’s work lies in its simplicity and meditative power rather than in its diversity. The challenge for me was to capture images which describe this spiritual moment and meditative mood during his solitary ceremony phase. I wanted to visualize the continuous communication between the artist and his artwork. Therefore it was more important to focus on the process of this artistic creation than seeing the finished artwork.

About the photographed artist:
The works of artist Wolfgang Laib (born in 1950) confront the viewer with great generosity, satisfying emptiness, and present immateriality: apparent paradoxes that reveal influences of Eastern philosophy. Natural materials like milk, pollen, rice, wax, and marble are the artist‘s preferred materials in works characterized by cones, rectangles and other simple shapes.

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