TEJN
Raw iron works compellingly well for Danish artist TEJN. His sculptures are made from recycled iron, which he roughly welds together creating objects within a figurative sphere. The sculptures appear powerful and unpolished. To the trained eye TEJNs work may refer to the grand Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen, who was celebrated for working with raw iron in the ‘50s and ‘60s. TEJN wants to bring the iron media to a new and contemporary stage of artwork.
TEJN finds metal scrap for his sculptures and uses some of it in its original form. The rest is created into figurative objects that express a narrative dead-open for interpretation.
“When making my sculptures I try to see people as they are, and not only the trained version of how they want to be,” says TEJN in connection to explaining his drive for the figurative.
The underlying honest self that comes forward when people lose their facades inspires the artist. He appreciates how the loss of self-control develops a new transparent world, which he builds into his works.
Exhibitions:
2013
Best Before, Lunchmoney Gallery, Aarhus
Represented at Art Herning with Lunchmoney Gallery
2012
Street Calendar, Streetheart, Copenhagen
Street Art - The New Generation, Art Museum Brandts, Odense
Lock On Street Art video, Copenhagen and Berlin
Galore 2012, Valby Kulturhus, Copenhagen
Stroke Urban Art Fair, Munich
Absence of a Leader, Cafe Morgenrot, Berlin
Welded Attitudes, Lunchmoney Gallery, Aarhus
2011
Gallery Helvetikat, Copenhagen
Street Calendar, Streetheart, Copenhagen
Galore 2011, Valby Kulturhus, Copenhagen
Works sponsored for The Danish House in Palestine
Gallery Levins House, Faaborg
Walk This Way, KØS Art Museum, Køge
Gallery Helvetikat, Copenhagen
Bn Post it up, Benevento, Italy
2010
Gallery Helvetikat, Copenhagen
Street Calendar, Streetheart, Copenhagen
Interactive multi-ethnic art project ”Ungebazar”, Odense Bazar
Puls Plus, Filosofgangen, the Building of Art, Odense
Art decoration at the reopening of Stengade 30, Copenhagen
Artist Collaboration Against War, Bolsjefabrikken, Pink Army, Copenhagen
Familiealbum, Gallery Rumkammerat, Copenhagen
Galore 2010, Valby Kulturhus, Copenhagen
Kredsløb, Gallery Helvetikat, Copenhagen
Play Along, Interactive Art Exhibition, Gallery Rumkammerat, Copenhagen
2009
Street Calendar, Streetheart Copenhagen
Wild at Westend, Gallery Rumkammerat, Copenhagen
Galore 2009, Valby Kulturhus, Copenhagen