Esben Klemann

Esben Klemann is an insatiable artist. He experiments, constantly. He tries, models, destroys, reconstructs, works in series until setting up a system. What triggers this creative hyperactivity is a will he brandishes as a manifesto, as an artistic program in itself: escaping boredom, escaping banality. The inoffensive, nice matters that adorn our everyday life, are revolutionized as they pass the Klemann filter. Concrete sensually undulates and then gently collapses. The artist transforms ceramics into a solid cage that subsequently caves in the oven because of the heat or of a small absurd object he placed inside… Esben Klemann talks about “systematic uncertainty”. He sets a process in place, that never corresponds to the traditional way of working the matter he choose. He then observes the misused matter respond to his system – each time differently. Thus the incident becomes his artistic language.