to challenge point of view and frame of reference,
"thinking in different ways of how to break the object."
He is never seeking to replicate an image or idea; rather,
Kaláb wants to invoke a sense of nostalgia while dancing
on the edges of what remains unexplored.
It is this inspirational and unconventional viewpoint that
has generated Kaláb's oeuvre of paintings, animated
NFT's, sculptures, and light installations to date. It is also
this viewpoint that propelled Jan Kaláb into the public
eye with his "Art in Public" exhibition in 2014. is
project, an idea generated while Kaláb spent time as a
visiting artist in NYC, was all thanks to what Jan Kaláb
considers the best piece of advice he has received. "You
have to figure out how to get the attention[...]you have to
find your way," is how Kaláb details the encouragement
given by a more well-known artist. is sparked the
novel idea in Kaláb–although not his first–
to take his artwork out into the
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