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March 28, 2006
Uffe Christoffersen
It would not be an understatement to say that Uffe Christoffersen is fond of painting tigers. Very fond of painting tigers.
I'm blogging about him because he's cropped up recently on three separate occasions.
First, J and I went to the Danish Artist's Association exhibition in December last year (CORNER 2006) at the Charlottenborg exhibition hall. Christoffersen had a number of his "tiger" series on show there. One tickled me especially:
The caption (very hard to read in the painting) reads:
Et æsel i tigerskind skaber panik. Men når en ørestump viser sig, bliver der tigerjagten på møllen.
A rough translation is:
A donkey in a tiger skin causes panic. But when an ear peeks out, the tiger hunt is over.
Secondly, someone we know told us last weekend that they were buying a Christoffersen painting.
And finally, the painting below ("The Tiger") showed up in our office yesterday as part of our rotating (and loaned) art collection!
Posted by daen at March 28, 2006 07:11 PM