JAMES KAUM

Artist

The artist James Kaum was born in Germany, he currently resides in Paris. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art, Kaum has travelled extensively around the world. These journeys have played a significant part in the development of his artwork and particularly his painting – enabling him to not only collect, process and utilise a myriad of visual data, but also giving space and freedom to refine the essence of his work.

Having simplified the more complex assemblage which he created several years ago, Kaum’s recent work compromise of compelling, large scale abstractions. The seductiveness of their initial appearance is belied by closer inspection, which discloses a more unsettling experience.

On this site you'll find a collection of Kaum's work spanning the last decade, in which themes of fear, anxiety, & death are developed through the use of traditional art media as well as an array of non-traditional apparatus.

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