Galerie Nicolas Robert is proud to present Air is Where Effort Goes, an exhibition of new work by Lorna Bauer. Featuring 17 sculptures and one photograph, the exhibition furthers Bauer’s ongoing fascination with the formal and material qualities of glass. Surface, reflection, and volume are at play here, asking viewers to navigate their bodies through a landscape of peculiar objects, each one unique in its organic, irregular form. These vessels are surrogates for the breath and body that made them. Nesting in metal receptacles that perform as container, shield, armature, and method of display, these works fluctuate between nature and architecture, liquid and solid, metaphysics and matter. Further suggesting a physicality of the immaterial, Bauer has included a singular image of a spider in its web. Woven into place as a geometric overlay to its botanical surroundings, the web is created from materials inherent to its maker, delineating space as volume and embodying nature’s own polarities between strength and fragility, control and chance, grace and cruelty. Central to this body of work is a practice that hinges on the transference of energy, oscillating between interior and exterior and finding form in the formless.

– Alex Bowron

La Galerie Nicolas Robert est fière de présenter Air is Where Effort Goes, une exposition de nouvelles œuvres de Lorna Bauer. Présentant 17 sculptures et une photographie, cette exposition renforce la fascination continue de Bauer pour les qualités formelles et matérielles du verre. Surface, reflet et volume sont ici en jeu, demandant au spectateur de naviguer à travers un paysage d'objets particuliers, chacun unique dans sa forme organique et irrégulière. Ces vaisseaux sont des substituts du souffle et du corps qui les ont fabriqués. Nichées dans des réceptacles métalliques qui jouent le rôle de contenant, de bouclier, d'armature et de mode de présentation, ces œuvres oscillent entre nature et architecture, liquide et solide, métaphysique et matière. Suggérant davantage l’aspect physique de l’immatériel, Bauer a inclus l’image singulière d’une araignée dans sa toile. Tissée en place comme une superposition géométrique à son environnement botanique, la toile est créée à partir de matériaux inhérents à son créateur, délimitant l’espace en tant que volume et incarnant les propres polarités de la nature entre force et fragilité, contrôle et chance, grâce et cruauté. Au cœur de ce corpus se trouve une pratique qui repose sur le transfert d’énergie, oscillant entre l’intérieur et l’extérieur et en trouvant la forme dans l’informe.

– Alex Bowron

The artist acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Image Captions

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

…air is where effort goes…once our effort is spent…this crowded air…
Blown glass and metal
Variable dimensions
2021

Nocturne
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle fine art paper
Unframed: 40 x 32” Framed: 43.25 x 35.25”
2021