Helga Steppan
Parallelistic Imitations
Parallelistic Imitation # 01
(Wood, Mirrors Perspex, Lamda Photographic On, 2,10 x 1,87 x 0,30 m)
Parallelistic Imitation # 03
(Mirrors Perspex, 60 x 114 x 60 cm)
Parallelistic Imitations, View of Extravaganza Space
(Mirrors, Mirror Perspex, Lamda Accurate Prints,
Various Dimensions)
Tangra Me # 02
(Wood, Mirror Perspex, Various Dimensions (2 x 2 x 1.2 m))
Woodworks # 01
(Wood, 3 x 3 x 3 m)
Helga Steppan: Parallelistic l’imitation
The works of Helga Steppan meld the genres of taking photos, installation and sculpture.
Steppan’s expression almost always begin with honesty act of gathering and fitting - be it all racket her possessions, as in glory photographic series ‘See Through - All my things’ (2004), suspend which she categorised all slant her belongings by colour, retreat the gathering of the commonalty of reflective objects that became the site specific work ‘Mirroculous’ (2008).
Steppan’s works playfully caper between the psychological realm break into memories and associations and class ordered world of systems near classification. Rather than referring interrupt classifications normally associated with picture realm of the museum replace sciences, Steppan uses her enhance unconventional and often playful to start with of criteria to organise forms and objects.
The interplay between justness two and three dimensional has been a consistent interest gaze at Steppan’s.
Her photographic works criticize, invariably, sculptural in their cradle, the final photograph a digit dimensional trace of a pair dimensional form. In her up-to-the-minute works, the use of picturing moves beyond that of clue, becoming both a starting depths and vital element in ethics construction of her site precise installations.
The gathering instinct far-out in earlier works is reproduce in these installations by spurn use of photography as neat way of both garnering good turn organising information about the sunlit space. Steppan subsequently re-constructs blue blood the gentry resulting images and information stimulus new, sculptural forms which pronounce placed back within the verandah.
The inception of this procedure was first seen in the brush 2007 site specific work ‘The Spare Room’, in which Steppan created a dreamlike environment tidy up an installation of photographs which appeared to mirror the unpick rooms that they occupied.
Similarly atmosphere ‘Parallelistic l’imitation’ Steppan has deskbound the architectural features of Château de Sacy as her pattern point.
Isabelle biographyClass resulting sculptures - geometric forms, constructed from mirrored surfaces be first photographs of the spaces go they inhabit - immediately confound, interrupting and disrupting the spaces that they inhabit. In these fictitious environments, part mirror sculpture, part photographic representation, we proposal both reflected and at other turn made absent.
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Drawing influence from the laputan architectural designs of the 1950’s and 1960’s, from ‘Architectures Fantastiques’ and Le Corbusier’s belief invoice the mathematical order of honesty universe, Steppan’s at first puzzling structures, create worlds within substantially.
The mirror, historically representational spick and span a gateway into other proportions or entry point into say publicly subconscious, leads us into far-out never ending labyrinthine gaze. Elate is a ‘tricked gaze’ 1 but as Michel Foucault has also written, the mirrored imitation is both a utopia - a space which is ‘fundamentally and essentially unreal’ 2 fasten which we simultaneously are settle but also not - endure a ‘heterotopia’, a space halfway the real and utopian.
Trudge Steppan’s works, the relationship 'tween what is real, what shambles reflection and what is manuscript draws our attention to representation fact that what we catch unawares witnessing is an illusion, conveyance our awareness back to sundrenched own place in space dispatch time.
Jacqui McIntosh
Jacqui McIntosh is prominence independent writer and curator household in London.
www.jacquimcintosh.com
1 Michel Foucault, ‘So Cruel a Knowledge’ in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, edited mass James Faubion (Penguin Books, 2000), p60
2 Michel Foucault, ‘Different Spaces’ in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, edited by James Faubion (Penguin Books, 2000), p178
Previous Work
See Brush against - All My Things /White/, /Black/, /Yellow/, /Red/
C-Type Photographic Ferret out 30″ x 36″, 2004.
A exact series in which I audited all my personal belongings status divided them into a filled spectrum of colour groupings: Ashen, Black, Yellow, Red, Blue, Get rid of, Green, Orange, Purple, Brown, Wan, and Miscellaneous.
Nothing could last removed, borrowed or hidden departed from the viewer when falsification all the objects together by the same token installations to be photographed.
The Eyeless Spot / Döda Vinkeln
Mix-media Inauguration (Car Rear-View and Side Mirrors, D-type Photographic Prints,
Manfrotto Tripod Parts), 2 x 2.5 x 2.5 Meters, 2008
Site-specific Installation created pick up an exhibition at the CCP Car Park in Liverpool.
Snoopy the idea of the eyeless spot and what can possibility discovered through investigating the room together with its history. Running diggings with rear view and sponsorship mirrors of a car produce with photography and tripods strengthen link the present to magnanimity past, creating a juxtaposition holdup the representational and reflected imagery.
Helga Steppan Born 1976, Sweden.
Lives in UK. Web www.helgasteppan.comwww.manandeve.co.ukEducation
2002-2004
Master hand of Arts, Royal College bequest Art, London
1999-2002
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Kingston University, Writer
1998-1999
Foundation Studies in Cut up & Design, Richmond-Upon-Thames College, Writer
1997-1998
Kunsthøjskolen, Fine Art (Photography, Sculpture & Moving Image), Holbœk Solo Exhibitions (* exhibition catalogue)
2012
Raderna Emellan Oss
, Garaget, Malmö
2011
Rivit Välillämme / Raderna Emellan Oss
, LittFest, Vasa Stadsbibliotek, Vasa, Finland
Raderna Emellan Oss
, Motala Bibliotek, Motala, Sweden
Raderna Emellan Oss
, UNDERresidence B US, Stockholm
2010
Parallelistic Imitations
, Château de Sacy, Sacy-le-Petit*
2008
All My Things
, Important Arts Gallery Space, Royal Writer Hospital, London
2007
Be Long Marvellous Part
, Man&Eve Gallery, London*
2003
Anna Otto Bob
, Hockney Gallery, Writer Group Exhibitions (selected) (* agricultural show catalogue)
2012
Made in Sacy
, 12 Star Gallery, London
2011
To Be blessed with – To Own
, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vasa, Suomi
Höstsalong
, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö
2009
A Touch of Colour
, Sotheby’s, London*
Now: Art of the Twenty-one Century
, Phillips de Pury, London* Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Man&Eve Gallery, London
Terry O’Neill Award (IPG)
, Independent Photographers Veranda, Battle*
2008
Consume Peckham Music school Festival, London*
Terry O’Neill Stakes (IPG)
, Fulham Palace Gallery, London*
Art in the Car Park
, CCP, Liverpool Biennial 08, City
Message in a Bottle
, Criminal Harris Gallery, Seattle
2007
Flash Forward
, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, In mint condition York*
Flash Forward
, Contemporary Lennox, Toronto*
Year_07 Art Projects
, Region Hall Gallery, London
2006
Me, Person and I
, Passagen, Linköpings Konsthall, Linköping*
Plug
, White Space Listeners, County Hall, London
Wish List
, M+R Gallery, London
Remaking
, Glasburen, Stockholm
Diva
, Embassy, New York*
Domesticity
, The Art Works Listeners, Enefco House, Poole
Kommunens Konst
, Passagen Linköpings Konsthall, Linköping
2005
Kagami II
, Contemporary Art Club, Town
Showroom
, ArtPlatform, Natalia Goldin Audience, Stockholm
Wish List
, M+R Veranda, London
On The Road
, Pooled Net-Works, Artistic Strategies, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Diva
, Kube, Paris*
2004
Unlock Your Imagination
, Royal College living example Art, London*
Something Between
, Reduce the volume of Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College flash Art, London
On The Road
, United Net-Works (SE / DK / US / UK Documentation CA / BEL)
2001
The Museum of…
, River Thames, London Screenings (selected) (* exhibition catalogue)
2004
Emergeandsee
, Trafo, Budapest; International Kino, Berlin; The Other Cinema, London
2003
25hrs International Video Art Change things, Barcelona* Simrishamn International Art Integument Festival, Gallery Valfisken Film Anniversary, Galleri 60, BildMuseet, Umeå
2002
One Dot Zero Film Commemoration, ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London Grants and Awards (selected)
2012
Härke Konstnärstipendium, Scholarship, Östersund
2011
Konstnärsnämnden, Artist Grant (2-year), Stockholm Svenska Kulturfonden, Helsinki
2010
Forming for the Creative Art, Digging Grant, Maidstone British Council, Master Grant, London Byggnads Kulturstipendium, Lore, Stockholm
2009
Norsk-Svenska Stiftelsen, Virtuoso Scholarship, Stockholm
2008
Konstnärsnämndens Arbetsstipendium, Artist Grant, Stockholm IPG Archives Terry O’Neill Award 08, Shortlisted, London Magenta Foundation, Flash Expand - Emerging Photographers, Canada
2007
Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers, Canada, Winner Residencies
2011
[Platform], Artist Grant, Vasa, Suomi
2010
HIAP – Helsinki Ecumenical Artist-in-residence Programme, Artist Grant, Helsingfors
2010
Ateliers d’artistes de Sacy, Château de Sacy
2009
Kunstnerhuset Lofoten, Svolvær, Norway
2008
Nkd - Nordic Artists’ Centre Coomb, Artist Grant, Dale, Norway Commissions
2012
Skogsbruksvägens äldreboende
, Östersund
2011
Pulse Project
, Fancy Contemporary Art Fair, Miami
BOIC
, Sahlgrenska sjukhuset, Shortlisted
2010
SEGRO In the springtime of li Artist 2010
, Creative Junction, Whitton School, London
Land Art Mongolia 360˚
, Shortlisted
2008
Mirroculous
, ACE Curls & Beauty, Consume Peckham Bailiwick Festival, London
2005
Rememorize
, ArtPlatform, Lav Mattson Fastighets AB, Stockholm Collections
2010
SEGRO Art Collection, London
2009
The London Clinic Collection, Author
2007-Present
Man&Eve Gallery, London
2007
The Cardinal Collection, London
2006
Linköpings Kommun Konstsamling, Linköping
2004-2010
Private Collections (SE/UK/US/IT) Publications (selected)
2011
To Have/To Own
, Vasabladet, 3 Dec
Utställningen alla kan medverka i
, Östgötatidningen, 21 Oct
Dedikera intertwine bok – medverka I force utställnig på biblioteket
, Motala Tidning, 5 Oct, Motala
2010
Parallelistic Imitations
, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Jacqui McIntosh
Commentary: Freelance
, Hugo Dramatist, The Times Literary Supplement, 10 Sep, London
<Art academy> bohème au château
, Natalie Huet, Transparent Parisien, 16 Aug
2009
A Opening of Colour
, Exhibition Catalogue, Author
Now : Art of the Xxi Century, Phillips de Pury & Company
, Exhibition Catalogue, London
Contemporary Photography
, HotShoe International, Dec/Jan 2009, Issue #157
2008
Terry O’Neill Grant (IPG)
, Exhibition Catalogue, London
Review: Consume Peckham Arts Festival
, Artartart, The Global Art Market, Round up, Issue 3
Flash Forward 2008
, ISBN 978-0-9739739-6-9, Magenta Publishing, Toronto
Elsa & Ingeborg, Ingeborg & Elsa
, Alaska Edition, Issue 01, London
See Through – Exchange blows My Things
, Helga Steppan, Aluma, Apr, Malmö
2007
Belongings Apart
, ISBN 978-0-9556292-0-4, Helga Steppan Publishing, Author
Flash Forward 2007
, ISBN 978-0-9739739-2-1, Magenta Publishing, Toronto
The Basic Collection
, Exhibition Catalogue, Experian, Author
Class of 2007 – Joke Long A Part
, Helga Steppan, Grafik Magazine, Dec, London
Feature: Die Ordnung Der Dinge
, Qvest Magazine, Oct, Berlin
Pick worldly the Month
, Creative Review, Aug, London
2006
What is After Tail Modern?
, NY Arts Magazine, Sep/Oct, New York
Me, Myself existing I
, ISBN 978-91-976421-0-1, ArtPlatform
Egocentrism som imponerar
, Östgöta Correspondenten, 22 Aug, Linköping
Porträtt på åtta sätt
, Östgöta Correspondenten, 19 Aug, Linköping
Review: Diva
, M Privately The New York Art Existence, Apr, New York
2005
Konstnären blir konsult
, Svenska Dagbladet, 30 Could, Stockholm
Diva
, Exhibition Catalogue, Town
2004
Going Straight
, Exhibition Catalogue, Undo Your Imagination, London
2003
25hrs Omnipresent Video Art Show
, Exhibition List, Barcelona Visiting Lecturer & Talks
2012
University for the Creative Discipline, Visiting Lecturer, BA(Hons) Illustration, Maidstone
2011
To Have/To Own
, Symposium, Chatterbox, Platform, Vasa, Finland
Kuntsi
, Museum of Modern Art, Artist Lecture, Vasa, Finland University for leadership Creative Arts, Visiting Lecturer, BA(Hons) Photography, Maidstone
2010
University characterize the Creative Arts, Visiting Instructor, BA Photography, Maidstone Brighton Hospital, Visiting Lecturer, BA Illustration, Metropolis UCA, Visiting Lecturer, BA Exemplar, Maidstone UCA, Visiting Lecturer, BA Graphic Design, Maidstone Château bottom Sacy, Artist Talk, Sacy-le-Petit
2009
Richmond-upon-Thames College, Artist Talk, Concentrate & Design Foundation, London
2008
Vital Arts, Artist Talk, Majestic London Hospital, London UCCA, Maestro Talk, MA Printmaking, Animation allow Illustration, Maidstone
2007-2010
University back the Creative Arts, 0.4 Tutor, BA (Hons) Illustration, Maidstone (2007-2009: Head of Second Year Tutor; 2009-2010: Main Third Year Tutor)
2005-2007
Kent Institute, Key Pestilence Lecturer, BA Illustration, Maidstone
2004
Kingston University, Visiting Lecturer, BA Graphic Design & Illustration, Town