Contemporary art gallery, PlasticMurs, has just announced the opening of ‘Bent Horizons’, a new solo show by Czech artist Jan Kaláb, his first in Valencia, Spain, presenting a new series of new works that can be seen from September 20, within the framework of the Valencia Open event.
Born in 1978 in the former Czechoslovakia and formed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Jan Kaláb started his career as a graffiti artist in the 1990s, becoming the founder of the DSK Crew and one of the pioneers of the local scene at a time when the country was opening itself to western influences.
Later on, he decided to broaden his horizon and move to New York where he started creating large sculpted abstract letters which he chose to put up in public spaces. With the time, he developed a new form for graffiti where forms became more and more geometric, using colourful squares and circles as an obsessive vocabulary for infinite variations around depth, time, and motion.
Using the circle or sphere as a boarder and a strongly defined colour palette for composition, tension is created by what is inside and outside the circle, as well as its shape. There is always a main colour that makes up most of the space that the rest of the colours have to abide to. Tension defined through colours and shapes.
“Bent Horizons” opens on Friday 20 September at 19:00 and will run through 8 November at the gallery located on calle Denia 45. 46006. València. Spain.
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Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
