Artist Hannes Schauer regards his practice as a refuge from the world’s noise, a space for quiet contemplation. Schauer likens the experience to communing with nature: Both ameliorate the ego’s aches by casting their slight dimensions into relief. Intuitively, then, the artist decided to lend his practice in the service of encapsulating nature’s wisdom.
Highly embodied and intuitive, Schauer’s process is akin to a spiritual ritual. He executes each painting by laying the canvas on the floor, expressively splashing it with highly diluted ink and acrylic paint. Moving in tandem with the water, Schauer shapes its precipitation and atmospheric turbulence, establishing his initial composition.
