ALBERT KAAN

Frequency ship to gravity, 2018, square pipe mesh, el-wire, marker, 260 x 500 x 50 cm, by night
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BIOGRAPHY
Albert Kaan lives and works in Bucharest. Born in 1993, he graduated from the Sculpture Department at the National University of Arts in Bucharest in 2016. His artistic discourse is strongly related to his urban experiences. He combines industrial materials, such as iron and tar with the more traditional modelling clay, plaster or charcoal to create spatial structures of generous sizes that can be as well exhibited outdoor, in gardens and parks or indoor, in white-cube or industrial spaces. He also mixes sounds and video-projections with industrial structures, creating spectacular effects in live performances.
As a young artist he explores out of the ordinary mental and sensory experiences and transfers them into matter. More than being shortly lived, his artworks are projected, planned, imagined and transformed into solid, permanent structures.
Just as a photograph immortalizes moments, the metal networks built up by the artist preserve pieces of his thoughts and the memory of older memories. Through formal reduction and simplified geometry, he extracts the essential out of the sensory chaos.
The mixture of metal with light and colour transforms classical media in post-Conceptual ideas, while intention and process to eternize multisensory experiences in only one image, as in photography, amplifies the polymorphic meaning of his objects-instances.
Albert Kaan combines media in such a way that he takes a distance from tradition, that can easily confine such a historical discipline. He welds, paints and assembles various materials, using formal rigors concerning rhythm, movement and the ephemeral.
His first solo show presented at 418 Gallery has a site-specific dimension, the artist being influenced by the space of the barn from Cetate, where he integrated his vision along with the technical possibilities of the given environment. Being interested in installation as practice in post-War art history, Albert Kaan claims his inspirational sources from Dan Flavin or James Turrell, without becoming formal burdens, only guiding practices in certain technical aspects. Claire Bishop considered that installation “addresses the viewer directly as a literal presence in the space”. The exhibition Form Vibration – Time Illusion is situated in the mid-point between site-specific installation and a display of serial artefacts and relies on the effect that space and light have upon objects, sound and shapes.
SELECTED ARTICLES
Young Artists, Young Friends – New Contemporaries | arthotshot.com, Antonella Grevers
Interview with the artist Albert Kaan by Antonella Grevers | ArtHotShot.com
Cetate Arts Danube | Impressions by Victoria Dejaco | Vienna Contemporary Mag, August 2018
Form Vibration/Time Illusion | Albert Kaan, RFI, May 2018
http://myartguides.com/exhibitions/an-abstract-feeling/
http://www.modernism.ro/2017/05/15/show-off-romanian-design-week-inspirat-de-unicredit-bank/
http://www.modernism.ro/2016/09/13/albert-kaan-artist-vizual-tineri-si-neinfricati/
SYMPOSIA
Cetate Arts Danube – Artists in Residence 2019, 12th Edition
Cetate Arts Danube – Artists in Residence 2018, Mihail Cosuletu, Stefan Radu Cretu, Albert Kaan, Adina Mocanu, Petrica Stefan, Miki Velciov , Cetate Arts Danube Center, Cetate, Romania
Cetate Arts Danube – Artists in Residence 2017, Stefan Radu Cretu, Albert Kaan, Constantin Luser, Ignazio Mortellaro, Stefan Papco, Petrica Stefan, Cetate Arts Danube Center, Cetate, Romania
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
In a Liminal Space My Shadow Gets Twisted
Atelier 35, Bucharest
2018
Solo Show, PlantVillage, Bucharest
Form Vibration/Time Illusion, 418 Gallery, Cetate
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Wintermärchen
418GALLERY, Munich
2022
Other Worlds on Paper
418GALLERY, Munich
2021
Cetate Arts Danube. Blue Coated Summer.
ARCUB, Bucharest
Young Artists, Young Friends | Accrochage 3 | Old and New Cetate Arts Danube
THIS WILL AGE REALLY WELL!
LEILEI Gallery | Bucharest
Young Artists, Young Friends | Accrochage 2
418GALLERY Munich
2020
My Solo Group Show
CAV Gallery
Art Brussels Online Platform
NAG – Quick-Fix
La Mielul Alb, Sibiu
Zblentit, zblentit !
A5 Studio Space, Bucharest
2019
Opening Artspace, Stefan Radu Cretu, Albert Kaan, Petrica Stefan
GOLDEGG4, Vienna
NAG – Sampanie in spatiu
La Mielul Alb, Sibiu
Art Safari 2019
Art Safari, Bucharest
MUTE
Nomi Blum, Damien Caccia, Stephanie Carranza, Albert Kaan, Dimitri Mallet, Célia Nkala, Daniel Roşca, Vlad Turco
In the frame of the French – Romanian Season 2019
Galerie Mansart, Paris
Dimensions – Albert Kaan, Cristina Flo, Matei Petrescu
Råhuset, Copenhagen
2018
Quasi Vernissage, Cazul101, Bucharest
2017
Creator and designers Night, Universivery of Arhitecture Ion Mincu, Bucharest
In serie – NAG, TOT, Bucharest
4 Artists’ Room, 418 Gallery, Cetate
Diploma Selected, Romanian Design Week, Mezanin, Bucharest
2016
An Abstract Feeling – Young Romanian Artists, 418 Gallery, Bucharest
Diploma Selected, Stirbey Palace, Bucharest
New Artists – Hanul Gabroveni, Arcub, Bucharest
Amural Festival, Brasov
Summer Well Festival, Stirbey Estate, Bucharest
Adamclisi Arts Archeology, Adamclisi
Expo Circuit: Hanul Gabroveni, Bucharest; Multicultural Center of Transilvanya University, Brasov; Museum of Universal Etnography, Franz Binder, C.N.M., Astra, Sibiu; Urania Palace, Cluj – Napoca; Ambasada, Timisoara
The New Creative Class 1. Albert Kaan & Mihai Popescu, Tipografia Gallery, Bucharest
Muse, Danaida, Craftsmanship, Cumintenii, Romanian National Library, Bucharest
Shape, Questions and Answers II, Timisoara West University’s Sculpture Department
2015
Metha – Lan III, The irreversible passage of time, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest
2014
Metha – Lan II, Human interconnection, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest
2011
Sutu Palace, Bucharest
2010
Look and Learn, Tonitza Highschool Exchange, London