Hans-Joachim Bauer (artist)

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Hans-Joachim Bauer

Hans-Joachim Bauer (born June 19, 1942 in Homberg (Efze) ) is a German land art artist; he lives and works in Homberg / Efze in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district .

Design concept

Hans-Joachim Bauer has been involved in Landart and Ars Natura projects since 1993 . His projects at home and abroad are about the visualization of civilizational processes. A focus of his work arises from the personally lived tension between euphoria and a sense of guilt in relation to the appropriation of nature by humans. Bauer understands appropriation in the dialectical sense as the shaping of human living conditions. He defines nature as a thesis, civilization as an antithesis and, as a synthesis, escape from earth and survival in space.

The appropriation of time, space, knowledge and domination is projected back into nature, into nature as part of the “global interior”, as Thomas Assheuer wrote in Die Zeit . Bauer uses natural materials (earth, water / ice, fire / light, air), plants, animals, people, graphic elements, writing and parts of the infrastructure (roads) as design elements. He uses GPS surveying technology, simple surveying instruments and agricultural machines such as tractors as tools .

Some works relate to the idea of social sculpture of Joseph Beuys .

Projects (selection)

  • HASENHAGD , 1998, Germany, appropriation of space, a wheat field and the A 7 motorway near Malsfeld were used as projection surfaces , the silhouette of a hare was cut out (length 300 m) from a corn field and a rape field with the help of a tractor
  • WASSER-www , 2002, Egypt, appropriation of time, the performance was realized in the Libyan desert near Cairo, the actors were teachers and students from the German School in Cairo
  • THE EXCURSION OF MR STEFANSSON AND HIS LOVERS ON THE VATNAJÖKUL GLACIER , 2004, Iceland, acquisition of knowledge, a colored projection on the glacier ice with the help of templates in the form of feet
  • PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE ice-minus , 2007, Chile, appropriation of domination, on the edge of the glacial lake of the Serrano Glacier / Patagonia, the ensemble of small ice stones was formed with the hands
  • TITANIC - A MYTH ARISES , 2008, Germany, Homberg / Efze, appropriation of domination, the upper deck of the ocean liner appears on a scale of 1: 1 on a wheat field.
  • POLSKA , earthwork, 2009, realized in Malwa, Poland with an excavator. Represents the ups and downs of Polish history in the form of a 25-meter-long excavation.
  • CONFERENCIA DE CLIMA , 2010, in Chile, project on the lake of the Serrano glacier / Patagonia. A floating iceberg (about 5 × 3 × 2 meters visible ice mass above the water level) that was floating on the lake was pulled back by a motorboat to the edge of the glacier using ropes attached to the ice.
  • THE WAY TO THE ORACLE , 2010, in the Sahara / Tunisia. The coordinates of the holy road of the oracle of Delphi / Greece were located on the desert floor using a GPS receiver and displayed on a photo.

Literature and Documentaries

  • Hans-Joachim Bauer: The lead ark - still time for rescue. Galerie-Verlag, Amöneburg 1988, ISBN 3-92-4406-21-9
  • Bernd Heintze: View from the clouds. Augsburg 1998
  • Eduard Kopp: A god like a thousand flowers. In: General German Sunday Gazette. September 16, 1994, on the project "God"
  • Heinz Rohde: Art that went through the stomach. In: Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine. , Kassel, May 25, 2001, on the project "Hirnweide"
  • Michael Aschenbrenner: About Berich . Documentary film on the occasion of the art campaign Die Blaue Kirche , the outlines of the Berich church , which was sunk in the Edersee, were projected onto the ice in blue in January 1997, 30 min., Shown at hr
  • Sandrino Sandinista Sander: The Eye of Cipatli. Documentary film on the art journey of four artists from North Hesse to Mexico, 1997, 90 min., Shown in alternative cinemas
  • Artist portrait on hr-TV, August 2005, on the occasion of the Erdlied project in Homberg / Mardorf
  • Klaus Bölling / Ralph-Michael Krum: illustrated book for the Hessentag 2008
  • Live interview “In Conversation”, Deutschlandradio Berlin, April 8, 2003, moderation: Peter Claus
  • Angela Jeffs: 'Land art' drives home message on environment. Japan Times, Jan. 4, 2006
  • Picture book Germany. ARD, 2000, artist feature on the occasion of the “ Sulamith ” project , dealing with National Socialism, the concentration camps as the subject of a Landart work
  • Michael Olbrich-Majer: Landscape as a medium , in: "Lebendige Erde", (magazine), issue 4/2007
  • Catalog: 33rd interdisciplinary artist encounters "Unter uns" , Malwa (Poland), 2009/2010
  • Orietta Santa Maria: La loca idea del aleman que quiere remolcar con cuerdas un tempano (The crazy idea of ​​a German who wants to pull an iceberg back to the glacier.) In: Las Ultimas Noticias , February 25, 2010, Santiago de Chile
  • Claudia Brandau: Don Quixote and the ice cream. In: Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine. , Kassel, March 20, 2010
  • Harald Kimpel : Hans-Joachim Bauer - Land Art Projects 1994 - 2012, A working biography , Marburg 2013, Jonas Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89445-476-0

Web links

References

  1. ↑ Die Zeit: Therefore it is pointless to speak of “natural” nature; it no longer exists. Nature no longer forms the outer world of civilization, but is part of its global interior - part of a large social cave from which there is only one emergency exit: the universe. December 17, 2008
  2. ↑ Lori Waxman , art critic from Chicago, discussed this action publicly at dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel on July 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Homberg (Efze)