BIOGRAPHY
ReinRaumTechnik
3/2008
//
9
Fig. 22
Pencil drawing from „Supper“, 2007
TheDrawings
In 1982, Labuda decided to dedicate himself
to drawing again. He decided to produce a lar-
ge number of quickly sketched pencil line dra-
wings (lineatures)measuring approximately
6 x 7 cm. (22) Thus hewould let his own style
develop out of himself bymeans of ceaseless
work. He has been creating these small hand
drawings for twenty-five years as occasional
etudes, as it were, with the aim of keeping
his drawing skills alive. A good example is the
series „Supper“ which Labuda published for an
Italian restaurant owner and other friends at
the turn of the year 2007.
In his essay „Journey to the Beginning of
Time“ hewrites about the drawings: “At first
look they appear to be creations of themind,
of fleeting nature, seemingly non-Euclidian
geometries. Originally they can be seen as
fragments of artful architectures, carefully
arranged after they had fallen down, and then
recombined to drawing-like buildings and for-
mations. In their new form they can serve as
refuge for noble thoughts and feelings. They
aremetaphors of thewords of Schiller: The
old is crumbling down – the times are chan-
ging - /And from the ruins blooms a fairer life.
The pictures of childhood appear in these line-
atures: a visit to Dresden in 1948, Germany’s
demolished cathedrals with their Gothic frag-
ments strewn on the ground; the clearing of
rubble in the deserts of ruins of the post-war
years, the hope for a new life. At the same
time they embody healing and valiant hope,
which has become form. With the passage
of time the iconography of my lineatures has
changed somewhat: the fragmentary aspect
hasmore andmore givenway to an archaic or
even a playful form.”
Sculpture
During the Art Multiple Art Fair in Düsseldorf
in 1998, Labuda presented his concept of a
„time tunnel“ to the gallery owner and editor
Frank-Thomas Gaulin. It is a hollow cubemade
of wood, metal or stonewhich has equidistant,
vertically positioned elongated slots. In one or
several of these, there is a piece of paper that
has been rolled, carefully folded and tiedwith
a hemp string.
Fig. 23
Win Labuda, „Time Tunnel III“, bronze
sculpture (Fine Art Foundry Noack, Berlin)
