Eske Kath: The Redder the Sun Appears
Udstillingsperiode: 13. september – 19. oktober 2024
Sted: Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aaboulevarden 43C, 8000 Aarhus C
Åbningstider: Tirsdag – Fredag: kl. 11.00-17.30, lørdag: kl. 11.00-15.00
Exhibition period: 13 September – 12 October 2024
Opening: Friday 13 September 2024 at 17.00-19.00
Location: Charlotte Fogh Gallery, Aaboulevarden 43C, 8000 Aarhus C
Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday: 11.00-17.30, Saturday: at 11.00-15.00
Charlotte Fogh Gallery is delighted to present the exhibition, “The Redder the Sun Appears” by Eske Kath. The exhibition shows new paintings and water colours, which initiate new approaches to Eske Kath’s characteristic landscape motifs.
Over the past 20 years, Eske Kath’s art has focused on a new and personal approach to landscape painting and the rapid change of the global landscape.
Where landscape painting traditionally related to the local, physical landscape that a painter observed, Eske Kath’s landscapes are based on today’s more abstract global landscape, which we must accommodate and process in the mind. These are mental landscapes, where the contrast between the tightly composed painting and the violent changes of our world shape a new, more abstract agenda for landscape painting.
About the exhibition, “The Redder the Sun Appears”, Eske Kath says:
“When I lived in Los Angeles, I often took a trip up to the observatory near the Hollywood sign and watched the extraordinarily beautiful sunset. I remember wondering how it was that the sun appeared so much redder and the horizon so much grander, than I had otherwise experienced them. Until I realized that the sun’s rays had to pass through the layer of smog from cars and smoke from wildfires that covers Los Angeles, to reach my eyes at the observatory. The more dust and pollution particles the light passes through, the more red-hot the sunset appears. This sharp contrast between the beautiful sight and the destructive imprint that man leaves on the landscape has helped to shape my art ever since. The paintings on The Redder the Sun Appears are created based on such harsh contrasts. The beautiful attractive and the dirty repulsive. The light and the dark. Water and dehydration.”
Eske Kath (b. 1975) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. Kath has exhibited in galleries both internationally and in Denmark and in museums such as Trapholt Museum for Modern Art, Skagen Art Museum, J. F. Willumsens Museum, Viborg Kunsthal, Kunstforeningen Gl Strand and Nikolaj Kunsthal.
Works by Eske Kath include part of the public collections at ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, HEART Museum, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Sammlung Essl, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna and is represented in the collections of the New Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Art Foundation. He is also responsible for many private and public decorations, e.g. at Amalienborg and Nørrebro Library.
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