MK Kaehne – Π = 3,14159
MK Kaehne – Π = 3,14159 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9783969122044
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: DCV
Price: £32.99
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Description:
The biography of conceptual artist MK Kaehne (b. Vilnius, 1963; lives and works in Berlin) oscillates between Vilnius, Moscow and Berlin. Influenced by Russian Constructivism, he draws and builds suitcase sculptures with a department store aesthetic, a reversal of the readymade principle.

His focus gradually shifted from the formal to the psychological, towards life-size figures such as It's me (2023): a hyper-realistic replica of himself, lying upside down in the mud, with a garden gnome next to him. Kaehne's work is strictly analytical, but the results are full of tragedy and irony. Unintentional drawings, in which biographical, Dadaist and political elements merge, accompany his oeuvre. A total work of art that traces personal and social development.