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