CRITICAL TEXTS AND QUOTES ABOUT LAb[au]
This evolving archive gathers critical texts, prefaces, speeches, reviews and quotations on LAb[au]—materials encountered and collected over time. Some are presented in full; others appear as excerpts or fragments. Together, they form a constellation of voices through which the practice has been read, situated and understood across different moments and contexts.
CRITICAL TEXTS
“Philosophically speaking, LAb[au] operates along the boundary between epistemology and semiotics, aesthetics and poetry.”
— Markus Payer
“What is offered to experience is not the representation of an object, but the visibility of a process, the sensorial incarnation of the rule.”
— Luiz Armando Bagolin
“LAb[au] has been producing works of astonishing rationality, systematising a kind of library in constant mutation.”
— Luiz Armando Bagolin
“LAb[au] proves that monochrome can never exist as a singular state.”
— Michael Reinartz
2026 - The Black Matter Machine and the Infinite Colour Scrabble
A Philosophical Reflection on LAb[au]'s Research into Colour
Text by Markus Payer, waveL agency, following a series of exchanges
English, German, French
2025 - Beyond the Library
Text by Luiz Armando Bagolin, curator and philosopher
In the context of LAb[au]’s solo exhibition Para além da biblioteca
Biblioteca Brasiliana, São Paulo, Brazil
English, Portuguese
2024 - Infinite Possibilities
Text by Luiz Armando Bagolin, curator and philosopher
In the context of LAb[au]’s solo exhibition Painting, Writing,..
DAN Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
English, Portuguese
2010 - Generative Aesthetics and Process Design
Text by Anette Doms
In the context of the monograph LAb[au] | MetaDeSIGN
English, French
2009 - The generative art of MetaDeSIGN
Text by Lucy Bullivant
Responsive Environments: Architecture, Art and Design
English
2026–1997 VOICES ABOUT LAb[au]
“LAb[au] confronts the signs of our time.”
— Anette Doms
PREFACES:
“Behind every black rectangle in the exhibition is a whole cosmos of thought into which we can immerse ourselves.”
— Marco Hompes
“In many senses, [LAb[au]’s work] responds to the wishes Nicolas Schöffer had for the future.”
— Eléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer
“Art uncovers the invisible.”
— Kai Kullen
2022 - ZEITZEICHEN | ZEICHENZEIT
Preface by Marco Hompes, curator and director
In the context of LAb[au]’s solo exhibition Zeitzeichen – Zeichenzeit
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
English, German
2010 - M0t1f
Preface by Kai Kullen, curator and director
In the context of LAb[au]'s solo exhibition M0T1F
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
English, German
2010 - M0t1f
Preface by Susanne Massmann, [DAM] Gallery, Berlin
In the context of LAb[au]’s solo exhibition M0T1F
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
English, German
2009 - About LAb[au]
Preface by Eléonore de Lavandeyra Schöffer
Text written in the context of the Art Grandeur Nature Biennale
Saint-Denis, Saint-Denis, France
English, French
QUOTES:
“LAb[au] repeatedly succeeds in translating highly hermetic ideas into an accessible, sensuous aesthetic.”
— Wiener Zeitung
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“For the past ten years, LAb[au] has been developing a visionary body of work of exceptional rigour, expressing the transformations in our perception of the world brought about by new technologies.”
— Marc Wathieu
“The works speak a universal language through various media and strategies because of the self-discipline and rigour used in designing.”
— Neural Magazine
“Just as Walter Gropius and his peers were navigating the shift to an industrialised world, LAb[au] are discovering new forms of architecture and space in an emerging information society.”
— Mandi Keighran