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Steve Litsios, an artist from La Chaux-de-Fonds in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, is interviewed this week by Mark Staff Brandl. Litsios is known for his vast paper installations, wall objects, smaller sculpture…
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Brian Sherwin: Steve, Mark Staff Brandl introduced me to your work. I understand that you have exhibited with Mark in the past. Have the two of you ever thought about collaborating? Have you? Is that something that you would consider?
Steve Litsios: We collaborated two years ago. I was in a group show at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel in which each artist was asked to invite someone of their choice, and since I was interested in working with Mark I asked him if he wanted to participate.
For that show we organized an exhibition within the exhibition using Mark’s Collapsible Kunsthalle, a wandering Art Space that he created and holds solo and group shows in.
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Steve Litsios is an American-born artist raised in both the US and the French-speaking part of Switzerland, where he now lives. In this solo show, he exhibited a handful of works on paper and one marvelous, room-filling installation. Titled Demonstrating Water with Stones, this later work was 35 feet long, 6 feet wide, 10 feet high and composed of 500 sheets of 30 × 20 inch paper, each suspended from the ceiling on monofilament attached with some one thousand French snaps tiny, nearly undetectable, metal swivel-clasps. This hardware allowed the artist to overlap the pale beige units, thereby forming two parallel walls, while also permitting them to serenely and softly waft about whenever viewers moved quickly along the length of the work.
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Américain, né en 1959 à Arlington dans le Massachusetts, mais installé à la Chaux-de-Fonds, Steve Litsios a gardé le goût de ses compatriotes pour les défis. En cherchant à concilier peinture et sculpture. Ce qu’il a fait parfois en se jetant dans des constructions baroques et polychromes. Mais depuis quelques années, judicieusement, il a élagué les paramètres de son travail.
Il n’utilise quasiment plus que le monochrome et des formes simples.
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