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TEJN | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 44–45) |
| Known for | Street art, sculpture |
TEJN (born 1976) is a pseudonymous Danish artist, who began his artistic work as a street artist in 2007 and occasionally exhibits contemporary art in galleries.
TEJNs gallery sculptures typically demands a more extended effort to interpret, than his street art sculptures, which he often gives a layer of a more digestible nature, allowing it to communicate with an audience passing by on foot or bike.
The highly symbolic works typically debate philosophy, politics or existentialism, suggesting a form of self-appraisal among the audience. [1]
Based in Copenhagen, TEJN's street art has made its mark on most bigger European cities. [2] He is best known by his trademark: "Lock Ons" [3] which are site-specific sculptures or statues, typically welded in recycled iron and chained in the street without permission, [4] often mounted to urban furniture with a bicycle lock. [5] His second most preferred media is paintings on paper, pasted up with wheatpaste on a wall. [6] [7] TEJN also makes installations, [8] stencil-art, and conceptual art. [9]
TEJN finds metal scrap for his sculptures in urban areas and uses some of it in its original form. The rest is shaped and welded into figurative objects that express a narrative deadopen for interpretation. [10]
The iron is later "given back to the street" as street sculptures, in the same areas where he originally collected the material.
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