Wednesday 31 July 2013

Per Kirkeby in Copenhagen


I first came upon Per Kirkeby's paintings in an exhibition in the Byzantine Museum in Athens and decided to explore his work further and do a post on him, which you can see here .

By the time Kirkeby had completed a Masters in arctic geology he was already part of the experimental art school Eks-Skolen and working as a painter, sculptor, writer and lithographic artist and he has pursued these activities ever since. His interest in geology and nature in general, still play a crucial role in his artistic expression.

He was also a member of the Fluxus group and was influenced by Pop Art in the 1960s. Later he was influenced by Tachism and Abstract Expressionism. The vigorous brushwork and chromatic beauty of his paintings and the sensuous modelling of his rough black bronzes have earned him the title 'lyric expressionist'. His paintings tend towards the abstract.



In Louisiana:




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The Sun Temple, 1969



 
Mongolian Felt Tent, 1968
 
 
 
 
Birds Buried in Snow, 1938
 
 
 
 
The Hut, 1968
 
 
 

 
Untitled, 1968
 
 
 

 
Two Arms I, 1981
 
 
 

 
Small Head and Arm, 1981
 
 
 

 
Laesoe, 2001
 
 
 
 
Green Spring, 1988
 
 
 


 Landscape, 1983
 
 
 
 

 
Mother and Child, 1938
 
 
 

 
Head and Arm: Gate, 1938.
 
 
 
 In the Statens Museum for Kunst:
 
 
 
 
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A Romantic Picture, 1965
 
The title of this painting offers an ironic contrast to the watered-down romanticising emotionalism that Kirkeby, as part of the avant-garde, rejected. Pop Art took its point of departure from consumer society as one way of breaking down what it regarded as a petty bourgeois concept of art. The motifs are from popular culture: magazines, comic books, and are transferred by means of templates. All contents are wryly kept at arm's length drawing on general ideals and cliches about desire. The painting is executed in a self-aware manner, replacing deep emotion with surface seduction.
 
 
 In The Black Diamond:
 
 
 

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Untitled, 1998 
 
 
 
 
looking closer. 
 
  




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