Discover the contemporary work of Daniel HAUGER
Daniel HAUGER
123 the mayors of Avaux 70280 Saint Bresson
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Né in 1958 in the border of three countries, France, Switzerland, Germany, this geography has influenced my life where the margin and the limit occupy a major place.
Materials, objects, exchanges are the recurrences of my journey.
Professional background:
- business creations
- international trade
At the margins:
- article in Revue Profane n°7 – 2018 – “an amateur's office”
- organization of concerts and events «Planet Willerhof »
- saxophonist
Training:
MBA IECS Strasbourg/Los Angeles/Berne
Swiss Jazz School Bern
Languages:
- German
- English
- Spanish
Centers of interest:
artistic references : Beuys, Dubuffet, Christo, Chillida, Laura Lamiel, Germaine Krull, Sun Ra, Lu Xun, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Colette, Raymond Aron, Jim Jarmusch, Lounge lizards...
places of inspiration: brutalist churches, industrial wastelands, the Louvre, the Venice Biennales...
Since 2018, Daniel Hauger has continued his work at starting from existing objects, his desire not being to produce his own but rather to rework with shaped pieces already available. existing to date in the manner of a “showman”.
He began developing his work with Tape-tapis
His desire as an artist is to approach these drummers and these rackets differently, so that their multitude does not cancel them out. All he can think about is taking them in hand to make new creative pollen flutter in the air. What animates it, in their forms which persist in being singular, is the gesture which founded them, legitimized them. It is this momentum that he wants to reinvest, repeat ad libitum to transform it. “ I have to tap with my carpet tappers,” he said. “ I have to use them like you would use a brush or a chisel.
And the strike, its intensity, undoubtedly has something liberating. He loads them with paint, light, sun, ink, and their vegetable skin tastes other joys: through the movement addressed to the sky, to the ground, these are pigments, materials which print their marks and convolutions on all surfaces that would welcome them.
Both identical and profoundly different, weavings and traces reveal as much an imprint, always unique, carrying a past, as a new story, to come. The one that could be written with glass, gold, metal, marble, fire, whatever we want, and what he wants is to free the object from its initial state, see it also flourish in bronze, porcelain, earth, crystal, fabric or neon...
Dare to use wicker differently, and above all, fiercely celebrate the transmission of knowledge like the intelligence of the hand.
