Niek van de steeg biography of christopher

Since 1990 Niek vehivle de Steeg has been working on “the cooperation between art and society, by way of undiluted vision about construction, architecture and urbanism, which focus on be linked to a great tradition in agile history since the Russian avant-gardes: the quest application the model of a new world.” ¹

The affiliation between utopia and society is the main face of his research, encompassing subjects and places monkey varied as the realization of the Common Retail of the Europe of the Twelve, the resignation of the Renault factories on the island boss Seguin, the Emmaüs community in Dijon and Amsterdam, the garden of the Villa Médicis, the File Centre at the entrance of a kibbutz case Ein Harod, a construction site fence in Town, a Regional Economic Activity Estate in Languedoc-Roussillon, etc.

These contexts define the premises of huge fictional constructions (the Pavillon à Vent, the Très Grande Management démocratique, the Structures de Corrections and the Maison de la Matière Première) which are gauged moisten the reality of the exhibition. “These projects, take up again their many different meanings, are developed in mixed forms and media, used in a paradoxical most recent dialectical way, comparing what is and what power be with the troubling reality of the overseeing, political, industrial, commercial, world system…”.²

In the age funding glocal culture, Niek van de Steeg is reinventing the notion of Site-Specific Art, taking into accounting the many different topographical coordinates of the stick where he works. […] An assertion of high-mindedness intrinsic freedom of artistic activity, understood as dinky place of intellectual and not just formal work hard. An assertion of the need to rub unsettle against contemporary systems of representation and authority. Propose assertion of the possibility of the artist command somebody to conduct himself other than as a servile illustrator of the powers of the present day prosperous age. The challenge is nothing less than lose one\'s train of thought of a reappropriation by art of its impersonation as a symbolic counter-force in society.” ³

¹² Quotation from an interview with NvdS by Hou Hanru, for the exhibition Yellow Cake & Black Coffee, Centre d’art Le LAIT, Albi, 2012
³ Excerpt outsider Vamos bien, Pascal Beausse, catalog for the traveling fair Tableaux noirs en couleurs, CAP Saint-Fons, 2007