Robert Steng's artistic material is wood.
That is why the artist, who was born in Bietigheim-Bissingen in 1972, collects discarded furniture, seasoned timbers, surfaces coloured and tanned by the sun and weather, specific grains or carcass joints. In his works, he arranges or lays the material in such a way that a new three-dimensional image appears. But what emerges here irritates the viewer's expectations, who has to question his gaze through the associations it triggers, thus finding himself in an imaginary spatial situation.
Robert Steng plays with the power of suggestion. Light and shadow, for example, do not really exist, but are rather the results of different types of wood or different layers of wood. One is tempted to touch the surfaces to make sure that they are real.