Bernhard Huber

"Existence in-between: objects in glass"

01.10.2000 - 30.11.2000

The painter and glass-designer Bernhard Huber, born in Neresheim in 1964, studied at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart. Since 1991, he has worked as a freelance artist in Esslingen, with a large studio where he can work even on his monumental pieces. Bernhard Huber has specialised in painting on 'floatglass' and has produced many large-scale architectural works using industrial glass. Huber's objects are mid-way between surface and space and have as their theme a transition, an existence between the images, which partake of the qualities of both painting and sculpture. These works are not only about changing shapes but also about coming to an understanding of our own visual associations. About unsettling our established ways of reading things. This is how the motifs can and should be continued beyond the limits of the image. In the process, the observer and his or her world are directly, even physically, drawn into Huber's works; since, depending on the viewing angle and the interplay of light, the space and the observer mirror one another, creating a portrait within the image. The objects thus have their existence in the realm "in-between", not least because they do have the qualities of both painting and sculpture and thereby demonstrate a new way of thinking about space and of handling surfaces. A method which has to do with fragmentation, with the bits and bytes of the fast-paced modern world. A world in which traditional world-images are not only no longer in demand but are no longer even settled. This is why Huber's grids and lines are also fragments of a network, small channels for information, similar to computer disks which - in a figurative sense - point to the continually changing processes of thought. Just as Huber is a traveller between the worlds of art, defying attempts to pigeon-hole him, so his works are, in the last analysis, a traversing of boundaries, transforming earthly materials into a creative power of representation, into the thought-process and the spiritual, eternally transcendent.

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