Peter Bauhuis. Simultanea: 18 Vessels

Peter Bauhuis was born in 1965 in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. After apprenticing as a goldsmith, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. For almost 20 years, the artist and goldsmith Peter Bauhuis has been exploring a technique for which as yet there are hardly any references. Applying experimental curiosity and creative materials research, he has since worked on the simultaneous casting of different metals, plumbing the depths of the materials’ limitations. He plays with chance, directing it so that the vessels emerge in ever-new variations. As the metals oxidize, gradations of color emerge on the objects’ surfaces, bringing to mind abstract drawings.

The dynamics of the material alone determine the result at this moment. The result is influenced by chance, the metals are frozen in a new state. Every demolding offers a surprise. From time to time, cracks and small holes in the vessel. If the breakthroughs are too large, they are reworked further in a second casting process, and new colors and structures are created.

The Hamburg-based photographer Hans Hansen, regarded as one of the most important product and still life photographers, has taken his unique look at the objects, staging 18 current vessel works from Peter Bauhuis’s Simultanea series.