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Leif Kath
"Between thought and expression. "
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Leif Kath is born in 1945 in Denmark. He lives and works in Christiansfeld in southern Jutland, his homeland. Multidisciplinary artist, Leif Kath works actively for the past nearly 45 years on the Danish art scene: painter, illustrator and graphic designer (etchings, lithographs, etc.), but also ceramist, designer and sculptor. His first debuts are with a group exhibition at the Charlottenborg Spring Salon in 1969. He is an engaged artist whose productivity and creativity are ever more innovative. An exhibition is being held at the Brundlund Museum of Art (September 2010-January 2011); its recounts, with more than 150 works by the artist, all facets of the creative world of Leif Kath, from the very beginning of the career Art of the Artist (mid 60).
Leif Kath is part of the Danish artists' association «Den Frie Udstilling », founded in 1891 to protest against the conditions of participation in exhibitions at the Charlottenborg Spring Salon (founded in 1857 in Copenhagen) and inspired by the initiative French « Salon des Refuses ». Note that this artists' association is probably the oldest in the world organization and holds an annual exhibition of its members.
Leif Kath exhibits regularly for many years, through personal exhibitions (in Denmark - Aarhus, Copenhagen, Kolding, etc. - and the United States - New York - mostly) and international group exhibitions (Nordisk grafikunion, Danish Graphic Art of Oslo, Biennial of Graphic Arts in Vienna, Milan Premio del Disegno, Middlesbrough Biennial of drawings, Barcelona Miniprint, Triennial of Graphic Art in Tallinn, etc.). Note that large Danish galleries exhibit his work (Weinberger Gallery in Copenhagen where we discover the magnificent work of writer and artist or MøllerWitt Gallery of Aarhus). Similarly, many institutions and Danish museums have acquired works by the artist in their background (Kastrupgårdsamlingen, Ribe Kunstmuseum, Trapholt Museum of Art of Koldin, Vejle Kunstmuseum or Art Museum of Bornholm).
The pictorial practice of Leif Kath belongs to himself, moving gracefully on the shores of informal art. « His motives, whether through painting, drawing, graphic arts, or sculpture, seem to refer only to the representation of form » writes Erik Meistrup. The artist works, very often, on the contrast of black and white. Each artist's work seems to have considerable autonomy in which the artist uses the perception of something indefinable.
The Leif Kath approach to art is driven by a curiosity of investigators, by a taste of perfection and a set of very personal report of colors and tones. The beautiful graphic work of Leif Kath, begins by engravings and linocuts where a «mysterious figuration » is present, has slipped gradually into an abstract expression. The artist works in this field, in series, leading ever further experimentation.
His evolution is a sign of freedom of Leif Kath and of his independence!
Artists on display
The art and the artists display: proclamations, galleries, museums, personal or collective exhibitions. On walls or in shop windows, wise or rebels, posters warn, argue, show. Some were specially conceived by an artist for such or such event, other, colder, have only the letter.
Some were created in lithographic technic, most are simple offset reproductions. They are many those who like collecting these rectangles of paper, monochrome or in games of colours, in matt paper or brilliant, with many words or almost dumb.
We are happy also to be able to greet, by this pages, mythical galleries as those of Denise René, Louis Carré, Claude Bernard, Berheim Jeune, Maeght, Pierre Loeb and others.
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Non réalisé à ce jour. All the complete worksBibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Leif Kath Billeder », cat., Galerie MollerWitt, Arhus, Danemark, 1999
- « Art in Review: Leif Kath », Grace Glueck, The New York Times, juin 2001
- « Albuquerque cactus ... », E. Steffensen, cat., Kunstm. Trapholt, Kolding, 2003
- « Leif Kath: At the last moment », cat., DCA Gallery, 2004
- « City and Country : Leif Kath », Grace Glueck, The New York Times, février 2004
- « Leif Kath », catalogue d'exposition, Ed. Museum Sonderjylland, 2005
- « Sometimes we are somewhere else », cat., Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, 2008
- « Leif Kath », Carol Diehl, in Art in America, janvier 2009
- « Leif Kath - Uden titel », K. Kampe et autres, Ed. Museum Sonderjylland, 2010
- « L. Kath: Space into Plane », K. Olsen, cat., Ed. Elizabeth Harris Gallery, N. Y., 2010
To read from the artist :
- « The we start all over again », DCA Gallery, 2001
- « Leif Kath », court-métrage et interview, Musée de Brundlund, Aabenraa, 2010
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Stamp by Leif Kath
fictional stamp
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps