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Per Kirkeby 122 x 122: Paintings on Masonite
Per Kirkeby 122 x 122 Paintings on Masonite Author:Per Kirkeby Testimony to an artist both searching for a language adequate to his experiences and hunting for experiences that can fill out the available sets and scenery, Per Kirkeby's masonite paintings from the 1960s and early 70s are rich and many, a strange, flat mix of the provincial and the cosmopolitan--from Brigitte Bardot to the Royal Deer Park in ... more »Copenhagen, from minimalistically expressionless stripes to expressive gestures, from grottos and caves full of longing to closed, inapproachable cabins from the western mythology of Hollywood. It is all there, in its own oddly subdued, spatially illusionistic way. Edited by Michael Juul Holm and Poul Erik Tojner.
Essays by Mikkel Bogh, Lars Morell and Jacob Wamberg. Hardcover, 10 x 10 in. 136 pages, 110 color illustrations« less