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MATEJ KREN

 Matej Krén's work is remarkable for its exceptional scope. In recent years his distinctive approach to sculpture, object, installation, drawing, print, painting, action art, film, music, sound and word has attracted attention at many prestigious international art shows.
His work not only touches on very contemporary problems, such as erasing the boundaries between reality and fiction, memory and the present, but also on classic themes in art - the relation between inner and outer, the part and the whole. Typical of his work is a searching for a complexity of content expressed in a monumental and comprehensible language.

 In 1998 he installed a "tower of books" entitled Idiom in the entrance hall of the Prague Municipal Library. His rotund made of books, Gravity Mixer, became a key part of the Czech pavilion at EXPO 2000 in Hanover. In 2004 he was chosen to represent Slovak art as part of the travelling exhibition project The New Ten, conceived as a symbolic joining with the European Union in the field of contemporary art. The exhibition commences in Duisburg in Germany and will travel to several major European metropolises.

His work is also featured in many art collections at home and abroad.

In my opinion Matej Krén puts a lot of soul into his work, visible at once that his works can worthy of respect. I really like works or highly detailed sculptures consisting of huge set of different pieces and Matej Krén just works in this style which I like.