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Per Kirkeby

'The artist Per Kirkeby died today (9 May) in Copenhagen, aged 79, according to his gallery, Michael Werner.

Born in the Danish capital in 1938, Kirkeby was a painter, sculptor, poet, novelist, film-maker, and costume and stage designer. He experimented with Fluxus performance in the 1960s with people like Joseph Beuys before becoming particularly well known for his opaque, semi-abstract canvases that critics and historians regularly discussed in terms of geological strata, recalling the artist's background as a student of geology and natural history at the University of Copenhagen.’ The Arts Newspaper.


Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 1999, Oil on canvas 300 × 500 cm


Per Kirkeby



Per Kirkeby, 11th May to 31th August 2014, Kunsthalle Giessen.
Per Kirkeby Kunsthalle Giessen