The view into the world of the self taught artists

Steel & Color

What we want to achieve from the autodidactic, educating contemporary artists.

For us artist challenges are always important. Demands by which we can measure ourselves and explore our boundaries. In our work as in our thinking.

The visions always push against the limits of our technical infrastructure.
Our form of creative work does not unfortunately with minimal equipment.

Probably the work of a artist lives partially on the ability of his imagination, but the mental work requires the conversion to a factory form by setting.
That applies particularly to metal sculpture.

The equipment is partly comparable with some independent manufacturing one. First we welded small sheet metal bits to structures, in such a way we processed in the course of the time our format representations in the gigantic. Frequently our vision and the implementation were poles apart.

It is also hardly conceivable that an iron sculptor and a painter get along surrounded by a large work and constantly new scrap iron deposits with the dimensions of studio spaces.

Hardly conceivably, nevertheless at present reality.
A closed down factory building floated before us, an old farm buildings, a former military area.
We looked for comrades-in-arms- but did not find" the third man in federation".

Besides life with the plastic arts often placed before us seeming insurmountable material obstacles. To know that, all the dreams, illusions and ideas would be carried out, and furthermore that we'd be able to earn a living this way.

I come nevertheless to what we want to achieve.
Independently of whether we have academic training, if we are autodidacts/self taught it remains up to you viewers to decides if what you see or read is Art

If you like our work and you would like to support us, then tell us your project, or simply share your opinion. Of course, you can also tell us, if you don't like our work.

Also in the future we are interested in cooperation with other artists.
The use of our slide machine is possible in the context of set design, even with specifically arranged slide disks.
Theater or film would be conceivable as interactive projects.
We are open to suggestions and requests.

One of our future projects is an art film project. The implementation is, however, still in the distant future. The film as rapid sequence, but individual pictures represent an enormous challenge.

Naturally we would also work together with directors, who could bring our art into a film script.
Perhaps, it is even our training which would enable completely new cinematic representations.
In the times, in which we do not have projects, we pursue our own creative impulses, if it where possible. (If the possibility consists, drive our art in front, which result from own intention.)

What we can achieve altogether in Art is uncertain, since we do not even know all the possibilities.
Sometimes I myself am surprised, if I discover new technique while I'm painting, or covering on the ferric plastic, in forging, forming themselves, therefore is to be discovered a large, hidden, artistic potential.
Henning's nature as a researcher, I hardly come not to define his nature in such other way, enabled us to cross into a new medium with steel.
This work with air pressure or vacuum method, indicates new possibilities in the ability of steel to be moulded.

In some works the rehabilitation of waste material plays an important role. Perhaps it has more of a philosophical, than an artistic meaning. To help the superseding to a new worthiness, give used a new use.
We breath new life into it.
That does not mean, however, that we throw any rubbish together and call it Art.

Furthermore we need to differentiate between long-term and short term targets. I have described a part of our targets, projects and ideas under:In development - current projects

Follow a "Think Big", more ambitiously, I would like to make an installation on documenta, a projection on the government in Berlin and my boldest dreams a projection on the White House in Washington.

To name a short term target, I'll mention the development of this Steel & Color PAGE.

As computer beginner I am naturally endeavor to use this medium as a new representation forum, and also as way of contacting and communicating with other humans.

Now I must attach a point about copyright.

©Copyright 2001 by studio community Steel & Color; Henning Block & Sylvia Aevermann. All representations, illustrations and works are protected in the context of the copyright law. Any unauthorized use is inadmissible and illegal. This applies also to processing by photo-mechanical playback, rendition, image carrier of every type, electronic and all further media, as well as to in part playback.
All rights reserved.

Naturally the Internet also contains danger for plastic artists, such as author abuse. (Of which we have already experience. However the abuse functions also without Internet!)

Whoever creates an artwork, a photo or a film, possesses all rights to it. Without permission may basically nobody it print, specifies, issues, transmit, change or whatever.
Artists live on this legal situation. They earn their living costs by the fact that they give others such permission and require a fee.

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