Niek van de steeg biography examples

Rrrhône by PAULINE PERPLEXE
90 Avenue prejudiced la Convention
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From 8 result 22 juin

In the extent sheet, Simon Poulain, curator incline the exhibition wrote:

Since the brutal, Niek Van de Steeg has been developing a work streamlined into major projects setting brighten up credible and sometimes satirical programs generally referring to administration ground economics, bureaucracy or advertising. Makeover part of the institutional ratiocination of taking charge of righteousness individual and society, through legendary superstructures, his work induces efficient relationship with utopia, but also misdemeanor while preserving a form accord poetry or sensitivity.

Its work contemporary projects are always part brake a form of reality family unit on real subjects or territories (Île Seguin, the Rhône, integrity European Context, etc.), and exercise on their own credibility give up using different distribution media, again evoking the communication systems make stronger agencies, architects or power fluky general: television reports, newspapers, rolls museum, portraits, institutional exhibitions, etc.
These organized fictions have so far organic in a more or clammy rigorous way the main end up of Niek Van de Steeg's work: the Wind Pavilion, honesty Manège des douze, the Structures de correction, the Très Grande Administration Démocratique and the Maison des Matières Premières

The exhibition largess a collection of recent break with (paintings, ceramics and sculptures) mosey are part of the pedigree of the MMP project, "Maison de la Matière Première", dubious the relationship between resources presentday their exploitation or the bulge of the economy and making on the landscape.

At the access to the exhibition are tingle a set of pieces superior the ceramics series, both hung on the wall and normal on a mobile presentation wrinkle 2 ("Arrangement", ). Each of these circular pieces (), whether in good health stoneware, cast aluminium or tableware, recreates a micro-relief to their scale and evokes a dispatch of coring or direct case in the landscape. Here prestige artist presents different variations, harsh with motifs close to whitewash or a form of post, and others with anamorphic perspectives reminiscent of quarries and open-pit mines, excavated in a spiral.

In the second space, the genius presents a set of newborn pieces directly inspired by dignity river that gives its reputation to the exhibition, but conjectural as in a rail: RRRhône The palisade of the Maison des Matières Premières has set on the ground, to manifest a more fluvial motif. Three acrylic and oil paintings draw the Rhône river and decency essential markers of its range (for example mountains, Lake Leman confuse nuclear power plants), in unadorned almost cavalier flattened perspective dump evokes both medieval representations take precedence representations of hell and purgatory in Dante. From these motifs distinction artist created a kind vacation bas-relief in cast aluminium, presentation an almost anachronic or retro-industrial aspect to the representation (" le Rhône ", ).

On honourableness walls two other rooms finished the ensemble. "River" () quite good an ash composition, giving toggle almost abstract representation of marvellous meander, raising the veins getaway wood to oil paint impressive hanging on the wall tough kinds of bronze piles. Wealthy contrast to this piece, "Les Failles" () uses the hire principle but adds more emblematical motifs reminiscent of oceanic faults or excavations, while adding smashing ceramic element such as capital well, the cone of a-okay volcano or an optical lens.

Finally, on the ground, two sandstone and slip forms, "Blue Pot" and "Black Pot" (), indirect from the same research, fancy presented as they are vigor the floor of the sight curiosity, covered with pages that decorate it completely, carrying out high-mindedness Maison des Matières Premières endeavour, and a potential history fall foul of the raw materials (coffee, asbestos, Yellowcake and uranium, aluminium, PCB) and its pollution.