Helmut Lang
Three years ago he shocked the fashion world by walking away from the groundbreaking label he founded. We visit the designer-turned-artist at his farmhouse in East Hampton, where he tends his organic garden and focuses on his cerebral art. Read our interview with Lang.
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Helmut Lang at home in East Hampton.
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lifeforms, 2008, oak, sheepskin and tar, which, “depending on your emotional state,” says Lang, evoke either graves or gardens.
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The organic garden, with strips of foil to keep the deer away, in front of Lang’s farmhouse.
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surrogate skin #1, 2008, pigment and mixed media.
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arbor, 2008, oak, iron, rubber and PVC.
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Discarded pieces of the wooden eagles that comprise three.
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A section of three, 2008, mahogany and tar.
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The textured surface view of one of Lang’s lifeforms works.
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Lang beneath his 40-foot arbor, which references the maypole rituals of his rural Austrian childhood.
