Harry Bauer

The materiality of your work, corrugated cardboard, rust, bitumen, packing paper, pigment, acrylic, charcoal, operates not as supplement but as ontology. What draws you to these unconventional materials, and how do they function as carriers of memory, entropy, or resistance within the pictorial field?
Natural materials have always fascinated me. They inspire the viewer to engage with the work. Often they are not merely additions but play an essential role, sometimes as carriers of resistance—how does a material fit into my idea, how does it respond to my brushstroke and application of color? I often accept the stubbornness of a material, and precisely that creates profound tension