Timothy Segers
UTOP
Timothy Segers, makes objects that stem from light, unmediated, improvisational gestures, realized in the moment. He devises them without knowing their ultimate destination, as indeterminate objects that can be positioned by others: the curator, the collector and, ultimately, the viewer. Segers makes a quick drawing on his phone, who he distorts and then produces them enlarged in powder-coated steel pieces that are hung on the wall with magnets.
Banner, Timothy Segers, Utop a8, archived obj., 2021
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As the sculptures of utop where made to deconnect and explore the experience of the space surrounding us and how we use this space. the production of these pieces needed needed a simulair philosophy.
To goal of creating anywhere at any time… ( how to spread the mark) stood at the base of these works. Making larger production possible completly deconnected of space and time , being able to create anywhere.
Addaptional of production to exhisting steal industry proces to be realised easly world wide.
Pushing the limitations of production on this stage in my cereer stoot central throughout the Utop Serie up untill now. When we started the production of large plastic elements.
“An artwork is not finished if it’s hanging on a hook. Take it, express yourself through it, do something with it. Art is a language you can play with. It offers suggestions.”
Article by Frank Heirman about Timothy Segers in GvA, 2016
“TimothySegers is fully aware of the Western roots and values that underpin the education that shaped him. He acknowledges the drive towards development inherent in Western culture. He neither condone nor criticizes it, and chooses instead to work with these forces, subtly altering their course.“
Kate Mayne, 2017
The utop gives a mark the properties of an object. This twist translates a drawn element outside its frame. The artwork supports the ability to turn around and flip the direction in the object to reshape how the space is experienced. Making any situation a black canvas for the intent of the beholder. Before the Utops I started to folded up paper boxes with the top covered in black marks.
Artist Archive, Sequence of cube in motion 2003
Timothy Segers
Spheres 01, archived obj., 2021
powdercoated steel
120 x 100 x 03
This rather unique focus of Segers to create artworks as a means of expression is a sign of our time. Because the concept of an artwork is quickly disappearing when it goes through the many curatorial styles and it gets integrated into our personal lives and preferences. We soon lose the concept like a dead language. For Segers, this contemporary position of the artwork determines a different level in which the artist influences.
The objects that he creates embody a timeliness, which holds on to the applicable nature of the abstract. For individual experience and the collective unconscious, we are moving towards the benifit of the next infinity
Ref to the eccentric prints and the evolution of the chinees language from the yijing, explains how we have evolved ourselves in the using of the language and how very recently our position to this origine has now completely changed. The understanding of a repositionable object, as the sculptures of Segers focuss on our abbility. On the maner we make an effect in our surrounding. It is in the making concious of how we place and handle an object in our world that we become aware of its impact.
[Timothy Segers ] How we formed the shape and flow of matter has usually been an unconscious act. It is in refining an equipollent action that we create a measure. A measure that defines us by the consequences of how we have made an impact.
