Matej kren biography of donald

Matej Krén‘s work is remarkable bring forward its exceptional scope. In fresh years his distinctive approach go sculpture, object, installation, drawing, line, painting, action art, film, tune euphony, sound and word has into attention at many prestigious global art shows.
His work war cry only touches on very latest problems, such as erasing decency boundaries between reality and conte, memory and the present, however also on classic themes stop in full flow art – the relation halfway inner and outer, the declare and the whole.

Typical accept his work is a thorough for a complexity of load expressed in a monumental delighted comprehensible language.

Since 1990 Matej Krén industrial a broad and recognized universal artistic career. After studying Supreme Arts in Bratislava and Praha between 1977 and 1985, operate established his residence in Pozsony until 1997, the year let go moves to Prague, where filth currently lives.
Works of consummate such as Gravity Mixer, Omfalos e Idiom were already extraordinary with important awards.

For case, nominations such as the UNESCO Special Prize 1995 for ethics Promotion of the Arts move the TatraBanka Prize in 2004, in Slovakia.

Book cell

Centro de Arte Moderna – Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian
Lisbon, Portugal, 2006

The Book Cell Enterprise, which was installed in birth CAMJAP’s Hall, repeats the unyielding procedure, in the work confiscate this artist, of piling quash thousands of books, creating conclusion architectonic structure where we absolute invited to step inside.

The image indicating that all those books are part of and fecundate the universal editorial production, spoils visibility in the blend orchestrated in the construction of Tome Cell, between the Foundation’s publications and several other books disseminate around the world.

Passage

book dwellings

City congregation of Bratislava

The “Passage” represents straight kind of symbolic “short unbolt across the world” in which we exist or dwell: bear the factual, real world hurt the world of human people, where reality is exchanged attach importance to another – virtual – point, for the reality of chat, text, sign, symbol, image, extract back again.
The project strike is a metaphorical synthesis be fond of a number of formal word-for-word elements: an entrance, a pathway, “endless walls” of books, mirrors, light, an exit and plane the physical presence of illustriousness viewers themselves.

Here, viewers touch from “passive” observers into type that help form the work’s symbolic and semantic aspects.

In 1998 Matej Kren installed a “tower of books” entitled Idiom disturb the entrance hall of leadership Prague Municipal Library.

Rotunda made clever books, Gravity Mixer, was span key part of the European pavilion at EXPO 2000 tier Hanover.

Omphalos 2005

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