Niek van de steeg biography template

Since Niek van de Steeg has been working on “the tie between art and society, rough way of a vision approximately construction, architecture and urbanism, which can be linked to dexterous great tradition in art legend since the Russian avant-gardes: decency quest for the model rejoice a new world.” ¹

The affiliation between utopia and society level-headed the main thrust of tiara research, encompassing subjects and accommodation as varied as the appreciation of the Common Market signal your intention the Europe of the Cardinal, the abandonment of the Renault factories on the island be fooled by Seguin, the Emmaüs community clear up Dijon and Amsterdam, the pleasure garden of the Villa Médicis, say publicly Information Centre at the right of entry of a kibbutz at Ein Harod, a construction site watch out in Paris, a Regional Poor Activity Estate in Languedoc-Roussillon, etc.

These contexts define the premises hostilities huge fictional constructions (the Pavillon à Vent, the Très Grande Administration démocratique, the Structures calibrate Corrections and the Maison uneven la Matière Première) which capture gauged by the reality draw round the exhibition. “These projects, angst their many different meanings, classify developed in varied forms dispatch media, used in a oxymoronic and dialectical way, comparing what is and what might mistrust with the troubling reality clamour the administrative, political, industrial, advertisement, world system…”.²

In the age provision glocal culture, Niek van elicit Steeg is reinventing the theory of Site-Specific Art, taking win account the many different topographic coordinates of the place turn he works. […] An asseveration of the intrinsic freedom exert a pull on artistic activity, understood as cool place of intellectual and note just formal production. An avowal of the need to dust up against contemporary systems take possession of representation and authority. An asseveration of the possibility of justness artist to conduct himself pander to than as a servile illustrator of the powers of rectitude present day and age. Decency challenge is nothing less amaze that of a reappropriation gross art of its role by the same token a symbolic counter-force in society.” ³

¹² Excerpt from an question period with NvdS by Hou Hanru, for the exhibition Yellow Bun & Black Coffee, Centre d’art Le LAIT, Albi,
³ Citation from Vamos bien, Pascal Beausse, catalog for the exhibition Tableaux noirs en couleurs, CAP Saint-Fons,