Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture

Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture

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Per Kirkeby: Paintings and Sculpture is the most comprehensive survey in the United States to date of works by Scandinavia’s most highly acclaimed living artist, Per Kirkeby (Danish, b. 1938). Equally trained as a geologist and an artist, Kirkeby is a painter of eminent sensuality, creating richly l…

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    Fram, 1983

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2012 1:33


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    Untitled, 2009

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    Stop 2 Kirkeby was inspired to paint horses by the sixteenth-century woodcuts of the German artist Hans Baldung Grien.

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    Regicide at Finderup barn, 1967

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2012 0:59


    Stop 3 From the late 1960s through the 1970s Kirkeby produced pictures on serially arranged square Masonite panels. Repeating motifs such as cabins, caves, and Mayan ruins transform natural associations into more real or historical landscape paintings.

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    Untitled, 1982

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2012 1:28


    Stop 4 Kirkeby's Blackboards a special significance for him. It is in these works that he is most experimental. The Blackboards are as much about erasure than about building layers.

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    Inventory XX, 2002

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    Large Head, 1984

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