Portfolio Item Category: Abstract
GRAVITY DEJA VU
GRAVITY DEJA VU – 100 x 200 cm – BRASS
@The Perfect Project, CGS, Lugano – SWISS
Have you ever had a deja vu? Have you ever “felt” something before it happened?
As always in these situations, you can believe this story as well as not. Whoever knows me and who got this work, will be witness:
This is the story of this work, even though, given the distances (in light years), it already happened million years ago but has come to us only now.
When I created this metalart, inspired by the cosmic theme, I pictured in my mind two suns, two stars, rotating close releasing waves from their dance. I previously called it “Gravitational Waves”.
Now it’s called “Gravity Deja Vu” just because it was finished and previewed two days before the extraordinary astrophysics detection of neutron stars collision that led to the generation of gravitational waves for the first time in the history from visible stars and not from black holes!
SANDSTORM
SANDSTORM – 60 x 30 cm – Stainless Steel, Inox
Abstract work on Stainless Steel, controlled oxidation with sand colours. The heat, the Sun, a mirage and the storm getting near…
Ti.REE
Ti.REE – 30 x 40 cm – Titanium
Study on nature made on titanium surface, metal that offers fascinating shades and color effects.
AURORA 1.2
AURORA 1 / AURORA 2 (Norway Aurora Borealis) – 42 x 20 cm – Titanium (titanio)
RUNE
RUNE – A NORWAY RUNICLE POEM – 40 x 30 cm – Brass (Ottone) / Stone effect
The poem is backed up by a Norwegian author of the late 13th century. It consists of hexameters, each of which contains two semi-detached judgments.
DAMASCUS TREE
DAMASCUS TREE (2013) – 60 x 50 cm – Stainless Steel fabric canvas (Tela di tessuto di acciaio Inox)
Made of stainless steel fabric, with a very fine weave, in this work the metal fabric base has been embellished with a damask effect and then curled to give movement and flashes of light.
Metal fabrics, very similar to fabrics and canvases used by “classical” artists, not only allow transparency and light effects, but also to play with three-dimensionality, creating both planar and raised, folded, rolled or, as in this case, curled and irregular.
As all the other Just Pure Metal art works by Jan Koralberg, also this one can be considered “everlasting”, since it will last as long as the stainless steel will, resisting to time, fire, water and all the other factors that usually deteriorate or destroy traditional works.
TREE (I)
TREE (2011) – 50 x 50 cm – Stainless Steel fabric canvas (Tela di tessuto di acciaio Inox)
– PRIVATE COLLECTION SHIH – TAIWAN
BRASS EXPERIMENTS 2015 (I)
BRASS EXPERIMENTS 2015 (I) – 29 x 21 cm – Brass (Ottone) – Koralberg abstract sperimentations 2015
MEMENTO
MEMENTO – 56 x 40 cm – Stainless Steel (Inox)
Work dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, revealed during the TV Qui interview on the 27th of Jan, 2017
NARCISO 2.0
Νάρκισσος 2.0 – 25 x 25 cm – SUPER MIRROR Stainless Steel (Inox Specchio)
In the era of selfies, the myth of Narcissus reproduced in metalart by Jan Koralberg: any spectator reflecting in this selfie mirror, symbolizing the vanity that exists in each of us.
— In exhibition @ “Fotografia Europea 2017” – Reggio Emilia – 5 – 21 may 2017 —
Modern artists bother to find a way to impress and express making a new creative art, sometimes by shocking art ideas, other times by minimal works; but the fact is that even creative artist offer no real art innovations, just a reinventing and a reproposal of old art techniques. In this "already seen" scenario, metal art regain this traditional art material. Creative art expressed by modern metal art is an endeavour to reinvent the metal as modern art material but, a lot of times, it is used just as a “base”: this leads to diminishing the metal as modern art material instead of elevating it to metal art. Honestly, I wouldn’t call me a modern artist, not even a creative artist, much more a real metal artist: my metal art comes form a new technique of mine which changes the metal in its depths. My metal art is not “using the modern metal to make something artistic”, while I turn metal to become art itself.
