Per Kirkeby and the forbidden paintings of Kurt Schwitters
Subtitle: retrospective
By: curated by Siegfried Gohr
Contributors: Gohr, Siegfried; Palais des beaux-arts (Brussels, Belgium)
Publisher: BAI; BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wommelgem; Brussels
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9789085866275
Subjects: Exhibitions; Influence
Description: The Centre for Fine Arts presents a retrospective of the work of Per Kirkeby (born in 1938), one of the key painters of the Danish avant-garde. But just what does avant-garde mean: rupture, minimalism, abstraction, borrowings, subversion? One can find all of those in a prolific body of work that began in the 1960s in the wake of the Fluxus movement. But that is only one aspect of a very diverse oeuvre that draws just as much on the figuration of Danish classicism and the experiments of 19th-century French masters such as Eugène Delacroix. Kirkeby cannot be pigeonholed, nor does he want to be: he prefers to relentlessly question the position and the perceptions of the observer. An artistic process that has seen him turn to different media (canvas, blackboards, paper, bronze, etc.) in an assertion of the freedom he finds, as a trained geologist, in the omnipresence of nature. It is in this context that the Kurt Schwitters room in the exhibition is so relevant.
Notes: "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition ... Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels 10 February - 20 May 2012."--Verso t.p.

Includes bibliographic references.