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