EVA BAUER lives and works in Munich and since August 2009 in  Berlin.  She studied art in Germany at the Fachhochschule in Trier and the Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin. 

One of the definitions of art is that it serves only one purpose - to order the chaos of life.  In my paintings, objects and multi-screen video installations I have concerned myself, since 2002. with the interaction of colors and shapes - the way of Concrete Art.  For if art necessarily always concerns art, it can just as well reflect on its own means and eliminate everything that is alien to art, and therefore simply forget all the meanings and contents that are superimposed on it. Thus, a value is attached to a color in and of itself without any symbolic or allergorical meaning. And a form no longer describes a thing; a square is a square and a line a line.

[Extract from an article by Hanne Weskott]

Eva Bauer paints numbers, which she uses as mere forms. She therefore does with numbers what Concrete Art has done with color and geometrical shapes: she negates any kind of meaning. The numbers can appear as positive or negative symbols, be repeated twice in a painting and form a new shape simply by changing their orientations and then unite with one another into a coherent whole. The astonishing thing about this playing with numbers is the incredible diversity that emerges, and also how convincingly this liberation of numbers from their meaning succeeds. One no longer perceives them as symbols for a certain quantity, but rather as pure structure in the initially white surface.

Exhibitions in

Museum Modern Art , Hünfeld
artmark gallery, Vienna
Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
Galerie Karin Sachs, München
Galerie Dagmar Behringer, München
KunstBehandlung, München
Galerie MAE Irene Eikmeier, Berlin
Galeria Van der Voort, Ibiza, Spain
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