Oliver Laric
9th Liverpool Biennial, UK
9 July – 16 October, 2016
In cooperation with Phileas, the curators of the Liverpool Biennial 2016 commissioned three new works by the Austrian artist Oliver Laric.
For this biennial, Laric produced a group of 3D-printed objects based on scans of the well-known marble sculpture Sleeping Shepherd Boy (1843) by neo-classical artist John Gibson (1790–1866), Gibson modelled the first life-size version of this sculpture in Rome under the supervision of Antonio Canova. The third and final version was commissioned and acquired in 1851 by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, where it is still on display today.
Laric also produced three versions of the sculpture, each slightly modified from the original, which were exhibited in three different locations as part of the Liverpool Biennial.
Oliver Laric (born 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria) is one of the most promising new media artists working today. He has exhibited, among other venues, at the New Museum, New York; the Prada Foundation, Milan; the Secession, Vienna; the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; the Fridericianum, Kassel; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. His work has been acquired for the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Haubrok Collection, Berlin.
