Oliver Laric
Donation to mumok, Vienna
In 2016, Phileas co-produced three new works by Austrian artist Oliver Laric for his participation in the Liverpool Biennial. Phileas extended this collaboration to include the purchase of one of the exhibited sculptures for the collection of mumok, Vienna. This was the first in a series of donations made by Phileas to mumok during the course of the year 2017.
For the Liverpool Biennial, Laric produced a group of 3D-printed objects based on scans of the marble sculpture Sleeping Shepherd Boy (1843) by neo-classical artist John Gibson. 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 displayed in three different locations as part of the Biennial.
Oliver Laric (b. 1981, Innsbruck, Austria) has exhibited 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, among others. His work has been acquired for the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin.
DONATED ARTWORK
Sleeping Boy, 2016
Stereolithography and selective laser sintering, polyamide, polished epoxy, TuskXC2700T
55 x 111.5 x 101.5 cm
Unique
