ALBERT KAAN
My legs are my gears, 2022, digital print on duratrans backlit film, raw metal frame light box, led wire, plexiglass, 33 x 46 x 8 cm
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BIOGRAPHY
Albert Kaan lives and works in Bucharest. Born in 1993, he graduated from the Sculpture Department of the National University of Arts in Bucharest in 2016. His artistic discourse was strongly related to his urban experience. He combined industrial materials such as iron and tar with more traditional modelling clay, plaster, or charcoal to create spatial structures of generous sizes that can be exhibited both outdoors, in gardens and parks, and indoors, in white cubes or industrial spaces. He also blends sounds and video projections with industrial structures, creating spectacular effects on live performance.
As a young artist, he explores out-of-the-ordinary mental and sensory experiences and transforms them into matter. More than being short-lived, his artwork is 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 older memories. Through formal reduction and simplified geometry, he extracts the essence from sensory chaos.
The mixture of metal with light and color transforms classical media into post-conceptual ideas, while the intention and process to eternalize multisensory experiences in only one image, as in photography, amplifies the polymorphic meaning of his object instances.
Albert Kaan combines media in such a way that he distances himself from tradition, which can easily confine such a historical discipline. He welds, paints, and assembles various materials using formal rigor concerning rhythm, movement, and ephemerals.
Albert Kaan, with a keen interest in installation as a practice within post-war art history, draws inspiration from artists such as Dan Flavin and James Turrell. He refrains from allowing them to become formal burdens, instead using them as guiding influences on specific technical aspects. Claire Bishop has noted that installation art “directly engages the viewer as a literal presence in the space.
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/
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
Post-world undercover Guerilla Fake Rock Manufacturing Facility
Art Encounters Biennial. My Rhino is not a Myth.art science fictions.
Timișoara
Nucleu 0011. Întâlniri Inoportune 02
Atelier 35
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, University of Architecture 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