his book, There, is here and now. It is both concrete art, and Rohrschach test, flipbook and short story. In a way, the book tells the history of art of the last forty years. Way back then, we had books like Matisse’s Cutouts. This was a book in which paper became picture. In which flat cut-outs represented human forms, and thus referred to the three-dimensional.
Now, in There, we have pictures that are almost abstract, except they might be porno, pictures that look like graphic design, but are art, pictures that are black and then white. Haim Steinbach is a friend of Steel. We can tell this in the title and the graphics, and the fact that the book came to fruition for onestar press. If Haim recommends another artist, we are going to believe him. He knows how to choose cereal boxes, exercise balls, wigs, lava lamps, and Halloween masks with precision. He is a master in the discerning of beauty. And thus, his recommendation of this book is good enough for you and me. Buy it. It is sexy. There.
Cornelia Lauf (Rome)

Steel Stillman
There
Published December 2002

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