Peter Bremers POSITIVE SPACE
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Peter Bremers Positive Space
July 19 - August 25, 2019
Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com cover: Circumscribed Space, 2017, kiln-cast glass, 16.5 x 16.5 x 16.5 inches
Peter Bremers: Positive Space Over the course of his career, Dutch artist Peter Bremers has become known internationally as a true master of kiln-cast glass, employing reductive forms that arouse his viewers’ sensitivity to space and perception in graceful, nonverbal poems about light, color and form. In Positive Space, Bremers investigates the symbolic and metaphoric possibilities inherent in matters of volume and space, as well as the capacity of glass to hold light. For these works, Bremers centers his attention in particular on what distinguishes glass as a sculptural medium: its transparency, which allows viewers to look not only at its surface, but also within and through it. In sculptures such as Liquid Space III and Connected Space, Bremers incorporates an inner space, which occurs when a glass form has both an outer shell and an inner shell. Here, this creates the impression of liminal, incorporeal forms nestled within enveloping colored light. Our observation of that inner space—defined by the texture of the glass as well as the reflections of its environment and the light that illuminates it—offers us a glimpse into a universe governed by its own mysterious laws of physics and perception. Other works such as Honey Sweet Space initiate the implicit sensations not just of solidity, but also of various other states of matter that alternately cradle and morph into each other. In their evocation of motion or stillness, suspension or weight, the sculptures in his Positive Space series reflect Bremers’ interest in the psychological and emotional response to form. 2
Gold Cosmic Space, 2019, kiln-cast glass, 8 1/4 x 12 x 8 1/4 inches 3
Ocular III, 2016, kiln-cast glass, 14 3/4 x 16 x 4 inches 4
Deep Blue Space, 2019, kiln-cast glass, 25 3/8 9 x 7 3/4 inches 5
Endless Red Space, 2019, kiln-cast glass, 9 x 8 x 11 inches
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Convoluted Space, 2017, kiln-cast glass, 17 x 14 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches 7
Connected Space, 2017, kiln-cast glass, 26 x 14 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches 8
Ocular IV, 2016, kiln-cast glass, 11 3/8 x 17 3/4 x 4 inches
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Inverted Space, 2017, kiln-cast glass, 16 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 13 inches 10
Honey Sweet Space, 2017, kiln-cast glass, 24 3/4 x 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches 11
Dark Space, 2019, kiln-cast glass, 11 x 11 7/8x 7 7/8 inches 12
Liquid Space III, 2018, kiln-cast glass, 17.2x24x8 inches 13
Peter Bremers
b. 1957 Maastricht, Netherlands
EDUCATION
2004
Etienne & van den Doel Expressive Glass Art,
1988
Jan van Eyck Akademie, Post Academic Institute for
Oiterwijk, Netherlands
Art & Design, Maastricht, Netherlands
Rosenthal Studio Haus, Hamburg, Germany
1980
University of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department,
Galerie le Manoir du Mad, with Bruce Thurman,
Maastricht, Netherlands
Nancy, France
Pan: Etienne & van den Doel Expressive Glass Art,
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Oiterwijk, Netherlands
2019
Positive Space, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2003
Gal. LaForet, Verbiers, Switzerland
2014
Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, NL
Etienne & van den Doel Expresive Glass Art, Den Haag,
2013
Stewart Fine Art, Boca Raton, USA
Netherlands
2012
Pismo Gallery, Aspen, CO
Galerie Splinter, Berlin, Germany
2011
Points of Ascent, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
Jacob Bach Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Gallery of Modern Masters, Sedona, AZ
2002
Leon Salet Arte & Moda, Maastricht, Netherlands
Litvak Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Riley Hawk Galleries, Cleveland, OH
Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
2010
Gal. LaForet, Verbiers, Switzerland
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Gallery of Modern Masters, Sedona, AZ
National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Glass Inspiration, Burgdorff, Switzerland
Palm Springs Art Musuem, Palm Springs, CA
2009
Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
2008
Kuivato Gallery, Sedona, AZ
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark
Museum Ernsting, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany
Museo de Arte in Vidrio Mava, Madrid, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo en Vidrio de
Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld Lette, Germany
Alcorcon, Madrid, Spain
Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark
Mobile Museum, Mobile, AL
2007
Etienne & van den Doel Expressive Glass Art,
Kunst und Gewerbe Museum, Hanburg, Germany
Oisterwijk, Netherlands
Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
Salet Arte & Moda, Maastricht, Netherlands
Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld Lette, Germany
Gal. LaForet, Verbiers, Switzerland
National Glassmuseum, Leerdam, Netherlands
2006
Retrospective: Etienne & van den Doel Expressive
Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, Netherlands
Glass Art, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
National Glassmuseum, Leerdam, Netherlands
Lee Freed Gallery, Lincoln City, OR
Nationale Nederlanen Assurantien, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Raglan Gallery, Manly, Australia
Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005
Jan van der Toght Museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands
National Glassmuseum Leerdam, Netherlands
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Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com Š 2019 LewAllen Contemporary, LLC 16 Artwork Š Peter Bremers