Title: Jorn Kirkeby
Description: The exhibition JORN / KIRKEBY is based on the artists' picturesque production. It will take the form of a number of themes, which highlight the two artists' relationship to, among other things, frivolous painting, classicism, eroticism, the landscape and self-portraits. Jorn and Kirkeby were from different generations, and they never met. Yet there are a number of communities of interest in their art that ARoS wants to show by exhibiting them together. The exhibition will highlight a spiritual and theoretical kinship between the two artists, where the similarity does not necessarily exist in the immediate and recognizable. At the same time, it will illuminate the difference in spectrum from Jorn's violent, untamed abstractions to Kirkeby's thoughtful, intellectual and controlled abstractions. Exhibition: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (21.11.2020 - 05.04.2021)

Udstillingen JORN / KIRKEBY tager udgangspunkt i kunstnernes maleriske produktion. Den vil forme sig gennem en række tematikker, som fremhæver de to kunstneres forhold til blandt andet det frivole maleri, klassicismen, erotikken, landskabet og selvfremstillinger. Jorn og Kirkeby var fra forskellige generationer, og de mødte aldrig hinanden. Alligevel eksisterer der en række interessefællesskaber i deres kunst, som ARoS ønsker at vise ved at udstille dem sammen. Udstillingen vil fremhæve et åndeligt og teoretisk slægtskab mellem de to kunstnere, hvor ligheden ikke nødvendigvis findes i det umiddelbare og genkendelige. Samtidig vil den belyse forskellen i spektret fra Jorns voldsomme, utæmmede abstraktioner til Kirkebys tænksomme, intellektuelle og kontrollerede abstraktioner. Exhibition: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (21.11.2020 - 05.04.2021)
Subjects: Danish Painting, Expressionism (Art), Modern Painting, Exhibitions, Painting
People: Asger Jorn (1914-1973), Per Kirkeby