Oliver Laric (*1981, Innsbruck) is a Berlin-based, Austrian multimedia artist, whose work engages with themes of mass media, issues of authorship, originality, the relationship between past and present, and globalization. His own sculptural practice is often based on versions of classical and neoclassical sculptures, which he then reinterprets. For this purpose he re-imagines classic Greek and Roman sculpture, producing massive polyurethane and 3-D-printed casts. Laric makes 3D scans of historical sculptures and other objects available to download for free, and arranged for the ban on photography of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze in the Vienna Secession to be lifted temporarily. In his work, he questions the privileged authority of established art institutions.
Oliver Laric (*1981, Innsbruck) is a Berlin-based, Austrian multimedia artist, whose work engages with themes of mass media, issues of authorship, originality, the relationship between past and present, and globalization. His own sculptural practice is often based on versions of classical and neoclassical sculptures, which he then reinterprets. For this purpose he re-imagines classic Greek and Roman sculpture, producing massive polyurethane and 3-D-printed casts. Laric makes 3D scans of historical sculptures and other objects available to download for free, and arranged for the ban on photography of Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze in the Vienna Secession to be lifted temporarily. In his work, he questions the privileged authority of established art institutions.
