Calendar PagesAbstracts
In the early 1990s, when searching for paper sheets to work on, Steffa Reis came across various large outdated calendars. Their pages became both the physical support and the underlying imagery on which her own painting was superimposed. The page was covered with paint, but not completely – remnants of the formal elements that demarcate time remain discernible, thus creating a counterpoint between the visible and the partly hidden.
In regard to these works and their making, Steffa Reis related: “It seemed like an exciting way to weave and thread these existing and common materials into a fabric of the ‘present-continuous’ — an expression not only of the here and now, but of a continuing link to the future.”
In the early 1990s, when searching for paper sheets to work on, Steffa Reis came across various large outdated calendars. Their pages became both the physical support and the underlying imagery on which her own painting was superimposed.
The page was covered with paint, but not completely – remnants of the formal elements that demarcate time remain discernible, thus creating a counterpoint between the visible and the partly hidden.
In regard to these works and their making, Steffa Reis related: “It seemed like an exciting way to weave and thread these existing and common materials into a fabric of the ‘present-continuous’ — an expression not only of the here and now, but of a continuing link to the future.”
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Calendar Pages 1, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 3, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 4, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 8, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 10, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 15, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 17, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 17a, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 18, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 23, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 24, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 32, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 39, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 41, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 46, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 49, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 50, 1990-93 -
Calendar Pages 51, 1990-93 -
Calendar Page 61, 1994
Private collection
