House of Books : Matej Kren
Is an octagonal building made entirely from books that was installed in the Modern Art Center in Lisboa, part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal.
Slovakian artist Matej Kren built an octagonal framework, filled it with books and removed it, leaving a symmetrical, enclosed room of stacked literature.
The books used for the piece were borrowed from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation onsite at the Modern Art Center and returned to its collection after use, making it a very site-specific, almost personal piece, and reinforcing the idea that you don’t have to use something crazy, new and disposable to make powerful art.
