Hermann Steins

Hermann Steins , born in 1955 with Haaksbergen with the Netherlands, is a Dutch painter, installed with Paris. He is cofounder, with Augusto Foldi and Fabien Hommet, of the international group artists >> LOCALITA <<.

He began his formation at the school of fine arts A.B.K. MINERVA of Groningue, Netherlands, before integrating a specialization in Engraving into ENSBA of Paris, where he lives and works since 1980. Since 2000, it is adviser technical near the National center of the print and printed art (CNEAI) of Chatou. Since 2001, he teaches engraving at the University of arts of Rueil-Malmaison.

Work

The main themes of Hermann Steins are association, the appropriation and space time. It belongs to the multidisciplinary artists: Drawing, Engraving, Oil-base paint and Polish, silver Photography and numerical, installation…

After long series of landscapes referring to its native village (“association” with the “black country”), it was done since 1989 a specialization in Linogravure monumental on false Fourrure. This material brings qualities associative and optical with the images and texts which it adapted, support which for much, disgusts and gives at the same time desire for cherishing it . The subjects are very variable and go from associations Sémantique S to the fairy tales.

From 1993 to 1995, it uses linogravures, of small size, for its participation in the actions of LOCALITA in France, in Great Britain, with the Netherlands, in Belgium and Germany.

In 1999, it carries out pullings of a very great scale (series “place of memory”), 120 X.500 cm, at the National center of the print and printed art of Chatou.

Around 1998, it carries out its first tests of engraving to the Acide on Miroir S. In 2005, it coédite with the CNEAI a block adhesive text, in Vinyle gleaming ready to pose, carried out according to a study engraved out of mirror in 1998, with the text:

I COILS TO

MAKE ART

I HASTENS TO

CREATE

HAS PUBLIC

As from 2002, subsequently to the silver Photography, it continues the same subjects in Numeric photography by means of a silhouette of plane or house placed in international landscapes (“appropriation”). First edition of two boxes of 9 pullings with the Franck Workshop Bordered in 2002: “PLANES (EAST)” and “PLANES (WEST)”. Small books of artist will follow, “Planes”, “planes “Zagreb-Plane” A/R”, “security” and, published by the artist himself.

In 2003 and 2004, two books leave artist on Chaise S by Hermann Steins, with mainly of the cast solid chairs in plastic, “GREEK FLESH” and “TURKISH FLESH”. The plastic chairs always drew its attention by their simple, effective, relatively robust aspect and especially good-market, the most democratic and international invention of our time . On the other hand, in 2004, when it is invited to carry out an installation in the gardens from Luxembourg in Paris, it was seen opposing a refusal to use plastic chairs, fear of damaging the image of the park . Following this dissension, it was folded up on an intervention by using mirrors to carry out its installation “levitation” (“space time”) to remain in the topic “the invitation with the voyage”. It continues other installations and other technique containing the cast solid chair.

In an installation/exposure to Accattone Space of Paris in 2006, “cuts has seat”, it presents 33 large single pullings in Linogravure and Pointe dries, printed on supports going of traditional paper to the false fur or the plastic tablecloths representing the woven image of a cast solid plastic chair. Here Hermann Steins is more painter (single image) that engraver (multiple image) and uses the press of engraving to paint more on varied supports that to ensure an edition of equal multiple pullings. The border, strict separation between engraving and painting, are thus broken.

Selection of exposures

Personal exposures

2006 : “cuts has seat”, Espace Accattone, Paris
2004: “Planes”, Espace Albert Chanot, Clamart, France
2001: “places, where I was built”, CNEAI, Chatou, France
2001: “ounce upon has time”, Galerie Martine and Thibault of Châtre, Paris
2000: “appropriations”, Gallery of Bellay, Holy Mount Aignan, France
1998: Royal Netherlands Embassy, London, the United Kingdom
1997: Gallery Velge and Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
1997: Gallery Biever-Risch, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1995: De Kunstzaal, Hengelo, Netherlands
1994: “places of memories”, Gallery Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
1993: Gallery C and has, New York, New York
1992: Juliana foundation, University residence, Paris
1992: “ME”, Exit Art, Cologne, Germany
1989: Gallery C and has, New York, New York

Collective exposures

2005 : Turpitudes , Garden of Balzac, Paris
2004: the invitation with the voyage , Artsénat 5, Garden of Luxembourg, Paris
2004: Under the sky of Paris , Gallery Klovicévi Dvori, Zagreb, Croatia
2003: Under the sky of Paris , Gallery of Buytensael, Arnhem, Netherlands
2002: Atelier Franck Bordered, FIAC 2002, Paris
2001: Third Biennial of the Engraving of Ile-de-France, Versailles, France
1996: Photopeintries , Luxembourg Casino, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
1995: Retrospective >> LOCALITA <<, Workshop Report, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
1994: Actions >>LOCALITA<< through the United Kingdom, Germany and FIAC in Paris
1993: Actions >>LOCALITA<< through Paris, Netherlands and Belgium
1992: Enrichments of the Cabinet of the Prints '78- '88 , National library of France, Paris
1991: Staatsportrait , Gallery Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany
1990: Gallery Inge Baecker, Artcologne, Cologne, Germany
1988: The Drawing Center, New York, New York
1988: Gallery Moteki, Tokyo, Japan
1988: Seijo gallery, Sendaï, Japan

Random links: