Camill Leberer
Germany
3 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Works by Camill Leberer
Camill Leberer's works negotiate the borderlines between painting and sculpture. Among his most important working materials are iron, paint and glass. Using these materials, the artist explores formal manifestations, such as light and space, dynamics and tranquility, as well as openness and closure in two- and three-dimensional work areas. Thus, in addition to his prominent sculptural œuvre, there are also drawings, paintings and photographs. Especially in his two-dimensional works, the categorical separation of surface and space is dissolved and the surface itself is understood as containing space. Through the use of transparent and reflective surfaces - made of glass, plastic, or metal, for example - Leberer consistently incorporates real space into the picture plane. Leberer's sculptures also open up space from flatness. Using orthogonal frame structures, the artist constructs cuboid object bodies mostly from rectangular surface elements. On the basis of these sculptures, Leberer investigates space and questions conditions for ideas, perceptions, and insights into space. The everyday familiarity with space is at stake and explores new perspectives for an unfamiliar event space.
Camille Leberer studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1978 to 1984. In 1984 he received a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg. In 1987/1988 he lectured at the Fachhochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim. Still in 1988 he received a Villa Massimo scholarship. From 1991 to 1992 he was a visiting professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. In 2009 Camill Leberer was accepted into the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt. In April 2011 he was elected 1st chairman of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg for a four-year term, but soon resigned from this position after differences of opinion. Leberer lives and works in Stuttgart.
Camill Leberer was a board member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund from 1997 to 2002. Between 1987 and 2003 he participated in four major annual exhibitions of the DKB.
His works can be found in the Maximilian and Agathe Weishaupt Collection, the Museum im Kulturspeicher, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, and the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, among others.