Per Kirkeby

Per Kirkeby was born 1938 in Kopenhagen (Denmark), lives and works in Kopenhagen. Kirkeby's artistic approach, in painting as well as in printmaking, is characterized by intimation and disguise, by crystallization and metamorphosis. At first glance chaotic, his highly complex layers of imagery, line structures and bodies of color oscillate between representional form and free abstraction. «I like to think of myself as a gardener, my canvas is the plot of land and my colors are the soil and the flower beds.»