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Pavol TrubenFragility INSIDE | Figure 1 (2023)
The light object series Fragility INSIDE explores the contrast between the healthy lifestyle of today’s urban individual and their inner tension and work stress. It offers an ironic take on this social issue through figures in basic yoga poses. The work deliberately plays with contrasts—both in meaning and material—such as high and low, serious and ironic, design and art.
The body is made from bent steel tubes; the fragile glass head reflects the limitations of blown glass. Its shape is defined by the limitations imposed on the material during the blowing process. I explore the moment when growth must stop to avoid destruction. The light pulses in a programmed breathing rhythm.
- Size: 180x123x80 cm
- Material: iron, blown glass, tightening strap, electric cables
- Price: € 9085,-
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Fragility INSIDE | Figure 2 (2023)
The light object series Fragility INSIDE explores the contrast between the healthy lifestyle of today’s urban individual and their inner tension and work stress. It offers an ironic take on this social issue through figures in basic yoga poses. The work deliberately plays with contrasts—both in meaning and material—such as high and low, serious and ironic, design and art.
The body is made from bent steel tubes; the fragile glass head reflects the limitations of blown glass. Its shape is defined by the limitations imposed on the material during the blowing process. I explore the moment when growth must stop to avoid destruction. The light pulses in a programmed breathing rhythm.
- Size: 180x190x80 cm
- Material: iron, blown glass, tightening strap, electric cables
- Price: € 9085,-
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Fragility INSIDE | Figure 5 (2023)
The light object series Fragility INSIDE explores the contrast between the healthy lifestyle of today’s urban individual and their inner tension and work stress. It offers an ironic take on this social issue through figures in basic yoga poses. The work deliberately plays with contrasts—both in meaning and material—such as high and low, serious and ironic, design and art.
The body is made from bent steel tubes; the fragile glass head reflects the limitations of blown glass. Its shape is defined by the limitations imposed on the material during the blowing process. I explore the moment when growth must stop to avoid destruction. The light pulses in a programmed breathing rhythm.
- Size: 180x162x80 cm
- Material: iron, blown glass, tightening strap, electric cables
- Price: € 9085,-
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Somewhere out there, there must be light (2019)
The drawing explores the questioning and ambiguity of information. A tangle of desk lamps, layered one over another, creates a chaotic structure that is difficult to read. The lamp as an object thus shifts into an abstract form. The suggested light beams emerging from individual lamps could serve as a way out of the chaos; however, they actually shine into each other, causing the search for the source to loop endlessly and become impossible.
- Size: 100x70 cm
- Material: colored pens, spray, paper
- Price: € 2300,-
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Pavol Truben
Pavol Truben (1985) is a visual artist and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he teaches Drawing and Marketing for Artists. His work addresses current social issues, which he reflects on with detachment and a subtle dose of irony. As he himself has discovered, he cannot confine himself to a single medium. He works comfortably in drawing, printmaking, objects, as well as spatial and light installations.
Among other achievements, in 2021 he received the NOVUM Foundation Award in Slovakia, in 2025 he won first prize in the Works on Paper category at the Osten Biennial Skopje, and he was a finalist of the Celeste Prize 2013 at the Art Center Ex-bibli in Rome. He exhibits actively, with a CV that includes over 30 exhibitions in Slovakia and more than 40 abroad. His work has been presented, among others, at Nuit Blanche in Paris and at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.