ESKE KATH

In his works Eske Kath (b. 1975) depicts nature from a somewhat brutal perspective. In his paintings and sculptures tornados and volcanic eruptions threaten to disorganize the world and the small, superimposed houses that occasionally reveal the fragile existence of man in the pictures. Kath’s fascination with catastrophies echoes the global media images of today and inscribes itself within the pictorial tradition of Romanticism. Just like the romantic artists let the motif of Doomsday stand as a promise of resurrection to new and better times, Kath also lets the end of civilization contain a paradoxical possibility of renewal and rebirth. Kath deliberately aims at creating a modern connection between the shapes of the landscape and the human body. As the title of Eske Kath’s second solo exhibition ’My Tsunami’ indicates, the trembling of the Earth becomes a metaphor for the movements of the body and the convulsions of nature an image of the ups and downs of the human mind. Kath’s landscapes contain the remembrance of the profundity of the self mirrored in the world and of nature as a mythological point of resonance of the mind. Eske Kath graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen in 2003. www.eskekath.dk

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