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| Declensions of light - a round tour through the exhibition |
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Werner Bauer has dedicated the whole of his artistic production to the declension of light and to enriching the discipline of Concrete Art by new visual and material dimensions. Since the 1960s the Saarland artist has created a breathtaking body of work covering a great many facets, all worked round the grammar of geometrical abstraction.
Light – both natural and artificial – is always central to Werner Bauer's artistic inquiries. He employs this intangible, immaterial element as the means for creating his visual works. In six different work complexes he has lent clarity to physical phenomena on a truly aesthetic level, and constantly invented new declensions of light by employing innovatory technological materials.
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lux: recognizing light
In the first group of works Werner Bauer explores the interplay of light and shade using solid objects made of wood. The different angles at which the light lands on the wooden elements arranged serially in rows create an ever-changing panopy of visual impressions.
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lucis: refracting light
In his works featuring ground and polished Perspex objects the artist focuses on the optical phenomena that are brought about by refraction. Changes in the viewer's position or the mechanical motion of some of the objects confound our normal ways of seeing.
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luci: conducting light
With the discovery of silicone as a light carrier, light permits itself to be used as a medium. When applied to Perspex, it suspends the normal total reflection of the light inside this transparent material, and thus allows the light to be emitted and illuminate the structures applied to the outside. |
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lucem: arranging light
Experimenting with industrial foils has opened up new artistic avenues for Werner Bauer. Working with a light-collecting foil, light can be concentrated and then made to leave at the cut and folded edges of the foil. In this way light may be shaped and arranged according to one's own ideas.
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lux: dividing light
OLF foil has the special property of being able to split incidental light in two directions. By doubling the light rays and changing the angle, the foil creates virtual structural superimpositions and the impression of depth.
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luce: mixing light
In his most recent complex of works the artist has experimented with colour and granted the viewer a glimpse of how the objects are fashioned. The light-conducting and light-splitting foil mixes the colours anew to produce the visual illusion of structural displacements and superimpositions. |
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