Steve Kaspar: Forward as Backward

Show & Culture

The exhibition presents a series of drawings by Steve Kaspar from the "Génération" series, created between 1992 and 1997. Executed in mixed media on Steinbach paper, mainly in two formats, these works represent both a culminating point and a pivotal moment in the artist's career. Since the 1970s, Kaspar has developed his work through series, moving in the early 1980s from collage, color, and figuration to a progressive reduction of formal means, while maintaining a constant interest in form and composition. In the "Génération" series, the white paper becomes a field of tension: a space where lines, geometric shapes, signs, and inscriptions overlap, repeat, transform, and dissolve. Influenced by his musical studies with Mauricio Kagel in Cologne, Kaspar creates a hybrid visual language, with drawing approaching structures reminiscent of musical scores. "Génération" stands as a major cycle in his visual art before his shift to musical production, revealing a practice rooted between disciplines, between form and perception.