David Rauer
ENG
Lochkartenhaus (Punchcard house), 2025
Stoneware, glazes, luster, hand-building, 1220℃, 125 x 120 x 215cm.
This work captivates the eye with intense ceramic colors that move between lightness and heaviness, revelation and disappearance. Through these contrasting sensations, David Rauer invites viewers to reflect on how we perceive and accept art and reality.
His young son took part in making the piece. The child poured glaze freely over the work, creating unexpected colors and marks. The whole process was spontaneous and fast-moving, allowing chance and playfulness to naturally seep into the work.
He says this process of making captures both the sense of freedom he wanted to express through the work and the fragility that can easily be shaken and changed.
