An Escalator Can Never Break, It Can Only Become Stairs

Steve Bishop

An Escalator Can Never Break, It Can Only Become Stairs, 2013125 x 200 x 90cmSign in to view price
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acrylic, motor, mdfCarlos/Ishikawa
Description
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This minimalist artwork features a simple, rectangular table composed of geometric shapes and minimal colors. The table's top is made of a plain wooden surface, resting on two rectangular white pedestals. The overall composition emphasizes clean lines, balance, and a focus on the essential elements. The artist's style reflects a modernist approach, prioritizing function over ornament and inviting the viewer to contemplate the relationship between form, space, and materiality. This work likely aims to challenge conventional notions of furniture design and encourage a more thoughtful engagement with everyday objects. ...

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Embraceable You
Artist
Steve Bishop
B.1983, Canadian

Steve Bishop works with fabricated and found materials and objects to articulate the poignancy and humour in sentimentality. His installations, such as little statues, a bowl of milk and cereal, an unmade bed, a half-eaten cake, or a screenshot of a Facebook chat, point to both the importance and futility of time and of a human life. Experiencing his installations produces an eerie feeling of entering into domestic settings but finding their inhabitants missing. Bishop’s video works feature touching amateur and found footage, like karaoke performances and cover songs. His works, to put it in the artist’s words, are “containers for something”, that “something” being evermore personal. Thus, the artist’s objectively everyday representations carry a subjective substance of serenity of human existence and cosiness of a regular life. ...

Steve Bishop: Artworks
An Escalator Can Never Break, It Can Only Become Stairs
Steve Bishop
An Escalator Can Never Break, It Can Only Become Stairs, 2013
125 x 200 x 90cm
Untitled
Steve Bishop
Untitled, 2015
80 x 20 x 15cm
A Thousand Signals
Steve Bishop
A Thousand Signals, 2020
Chutchie (small business loan)
Steve Bishop
Chutchie (small business loan), 2016
30 x 40cm
Deliquescing
Hello, How May I Help You?
Steve Bishop
Hello, How May I Help You?, 2017
107 x 46 x 41cm
I'll Be Around
Steve Bishop
I'll Be Around, 2017
106 x 89 x 40cm
Standard Ballad
Subscribers (‘86-‘88)
Steve Bishop
Subscribers (‘86-‘88), 2021
10 x 28 x 22cm
Thank You
Steve Bishop
Thank You, 2019
138 x 45 x 72cm
The Caretaker
Embraceable You
Steve Bishop
Embraceable You, 2020
149 x 48.2 x 43cm
Subscribers (’01 – ’02)
Steve Bishop
Subscribers (’01 – ’02), 2024
8.5 x 28 x 22cm
Carlos/Ishikawa
Gallery
Carlos/Ishikawa
London

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