The Artist
New Zealand-born and Berlin-based, Michael Stevenson (b. 1964) is an artist whose practice embraces both conceptual and object art. He works across a number of media including sculpture, installation, drawing and film. Allowing the conceptual basis to dictate the form of each artwork, he is particularly interested in historical moments that demonstrate the nexus between art and economics.
The point of departure for his practice is often a singular historical story concerning intersecting figures and events, both public and private. His work delivers traces of that story in a manner akin to archaeology. Some works involve a reproduction or facsimile of an object central to the tale. The artist is drawn to stories that tend toward allegory, consequently his work invites readings from the particular to the universal, and from the improbable to the fantastical.
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