The practice of artist Kevin Bauer is a continuous investigation of form, in terms of traditional sculpture: how volume relates to space, to other volumes in space and how humans relate to both. Yet his approach is far from traditional. ‘I assemble my sculptures from separate elements, aiming for compositions that come across as prototypes, as steps in a process of subsequent configurations. My sculptures play with the visual language of practical functionality, a familiarity connecting them to industrial design, architecture and construction.’
Kevin states that his work refers to industrial mass production, commerce and consumerism and touches on the distinction we make between functional and non-functional objects: the underlying categorization that also determines our definition of visual art. ‘The designed environment in which we live, the manufacturability of our physical living environment, is the subject I think about and want to question.’