Featuring sharp contrasts of color, the young painter's work looks at the History of Art of the twentieth century but draws on a visionary and imaginative repertoire, which emerged from the reality that surrounds him. "The works of Nicolas Steiner play all its expressive potential on the dialectic between past and present, between personal and culturally codified. The representations are inspired by the classic iconography for figures, poses and colours but reveals the desire to transform that historical and defined material into something personal. Hence the reference to expressionism that inevitably expands the pathos communicated by the representation, accentuating mimicry and gestures, to which the mark left by the artist who scratches the work is added, emphasizing contours and edges, as if he wanted to imprint his personal existential trace that adds to the historical memory" (P. P. Dinelli, 2019).
