Discover the contemporary work of Daniel HAUGER
Daniel HAUGER
123 les maires d’Avaux 70280 Saint Bresson
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Born in 1958 on 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 career.
Professional career:
- business creations
- international trade
On the margin:
- article in the Revue Profane n°7 – 2018 – “ an amateur firm”
- 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 interests:
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 using existing objects, his desire not being to produce his own but rather to rework with already existing shaped pieces in the manner of a "demonstrator".
He began developing his work with Tape-tapis
His desire as an artist is to approach these drummers and rackets differently, so that their multitude does not cancel them out. He thinks only of taking them in hand to make a new creative pollen flutter in the air. What drives him, in their forms that persist in being singular, is the gesture that founded them, legitimized them. It is this momentum that he wants to reinvest, repeat ad libitum to transform it. "I have to hit with my tap-mats," he says. "I have to use them as one would use a brush or a chisel."
And the strike, its intensity, has something liberating about it, no doubt. 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, they are pigments, materials that print their marks and convolutions on all the surfaces that would welcome them.
At once identical and profoundly different, braidings 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 you want, and what he wants is to free the object from its first state, to see it flourish also 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.
