Day 18

Today we spent most of our time with Peter Bauhuis, first in his studio and then later we met him at his exhibition for MJW. firstly, his studio was awesome! it looked exactly like my desk when in the thick of a project, which was a small pinch of validation that being a hurricane maker is totally fine. Anyway, his work was incredible and it was so interesting learning about his process and experimentations with different alloys. It was also really great to see a vast spread of his previous body of work before going to his newest exhibition for MJW. you could definitely see a progression and experimentation through the years ie. looking at scale and alloys. I also found the his work from the academy so interesting, that work he did by drilling through the building! so good! and also the work he did about gallium and the jewellery that was his but he pretended it wasn't, man that guy is a genius! Anyway after the studio we went and got a coffee and then wandered around a little, went to another gallery and had some sushi and then met back up at his gallery space to see his current exhibition with the chain trees which were so amazing, the amount of consideration that goes into creating something that must fall apart to fall together, such an amazing idea and beautifully executed. also in the other room of the gallery I really enjoyed the works were he used the alloys of the European coins to do his lost wax casting, and the duality between the gold and blackened alloy was incredible. After Peter's a few of us went in search of no. 31 on the map which was a really beautiful exhibition at Gallery Shanghai featuring the very large body of work 'Kiene Vase' or 'I am not a vase' by Jing Yang. Each of her pieces were geometric vases but cut into sections, so each 20mm band was individually crafted to create these vessels, it was so incredible. there was one wall in the exhibition with the artists notes on it and it was insane how much calculation and detail was in each piece. I was really taken by just how much work was presented by the artist, although there were a few galleries that exhibited just one artist, it was not where near as vast an exhibition, I found the whole thing very inspirational.