Peter Bremers

From Ice to Water.

In his sculptures Peter Bremers shares his inner process, spiritual awareness, and life philosophy. Meanwhile presenting us a mirror; sometimes thought provoking or meditative but always reflecting a need for understanding and appreciating the individual as well as the universal.

2021 the artist was honored with the “Artist of the Future Award” as well as a one-man exhibition by the Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg Florida.

“Nowhere is it easier to get up close and personal with the shrinking glaciers than in Iceland. One can literally walk up to the glaciers, climb them, and even experience them from the inside. Blue caverns, ice caves of unbridled beauty. But, in the four visits so far I've learned how the retreat of the glaciers is accelerating. It is visible in the tracks, the grooves in the mountain landscape, which has been formed by the glaciers. Every time, I see that the ice melts, the streams grow into rivers with jingling ice crystals floating on the surface. Crumbling ice shards from the Vatnajökull glacier collect in Glacial bay before making their way to the open sea via a short river. There it is thrown by tides and winds onto the black lava beach, called Diamond Beach. The ice floes, large and small, sparkle in the sun like gems on the black sand, before melting and being swallowed by the sea.

This impermanence is also full of beauty and wonder. From ice to water.

Still in glass but now with the emphasis on this transformation. Using optical illusion, so typical of glass, I look for a dynamic design language that makes this transformation visible. The objects have no front or back and with each rotation the image, light, and color changes.

The natural lens structures as can be seen in the glacier’s ice caves, the reflections of the light and the dark crevasses, perhaps as a harbinger of a gloomy future. The beauty of nature is still undeniably present. For me, glass is once again my medium to capture this beauty, but it does not replace the ice.”

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Barbara Achilles Stiftung Museum, Hamburg, Germany.

Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Eskisehir Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Arts Museum, Turkey.

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, USA.

Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Denmark.

Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld Lette, Germany.

Glass and Light Hotel & Gallery, Norfolk, VA. USA.

Grassi Museum Leipzig, Germany.

Imagine Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, USA.

Kunst und Gewerbe Museum Hamburg, Germany.

Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin, Germany.