BUILDING AND PAINTING

Architecture Meets Painting in the Oeuvre of Per Kirkeby. Per Kirkeby (b. Copenhagen, 1938/ d. Copenhagen, 2018) waswidely hailed as the leading Danish contemporary artist. A painter,sculptor, architect, and poet, he deftly interwove figurative andabstract art. In his works in large formats, luminous colors share thespace on rugged canvases with other materials. Nature was thefulcrum of his ar t, which is formidably sensual, but without lapsinginto romanticism. Exhibitions at the Tate Modern, the MoMA, and theCentre Pompido u and pa...[Read more]