This exhibition was embedded in the collection of Naturalia at WUNDERKAMMER – NATURALIA I ARTIFICIALIA.
I’m intrigued by the idea that events reveal their meaning only after they are completed.
Sometimes this relieves the moment from the burden of making sense. It can also excuse the nonsense of today by promising some reason for tomorrow. But in this way, any good reason can also be abused as an excuse. An excuse, that is basically a promise that something that didn’t make sense in the past at least had a good reason after all.
I like to turn this idea on it’s head, just for my own relief, so that the future is already complete even if the present is still undone. And the present is always undone, that’s what makes it the present. Yet sometimes it hurts being suspended in the now, unable to change this eternal state of presence to something that is just finally done for once.
For Peter Hauer every image is an experience.
He often employs color as a language, deliberately avoiding forms to prevent recognition and interpretation. His works communicate visually, rather than verbally or symbolically, encouraging viewers to engage with them through their own perception rather than intellectual analysis.
Each painting begins with an idea, which he embeds in the technical and material processes of creation. For Hauer, painting is not an act of personal expression but a tribute to the work itself, always centered on the result. By stripping away ego, he allows the painting to exist on its own terms.
Aware of the tension between expectations and desires in painting, Hauer paints solely for the sake of painting, seeking to align action with ambition. His practice is driven by a curiosity to explore the full spectrum of what a painting can achieve, using only the medium itself to push its own boundaries.
www.peterhauer.com
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With the kind support of Rosspartner Werbetechnik, GEISTUNDGELD e.V., SV SparkassenVersicherung, and the Stuttgart Cultural Affairs Office