{"id":2153,"date":"2012-12-27T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/index.php\/2012\/12\/27\/per-kirkeby-refuses-to-settle\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:39:13","slug":"per-kirkeby-refuses-to-settle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/per-kirkeby-refuses-to-settle","title":{"rendered":"Per Kirkeby refuses to settle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image-5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image-5.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image-5-259x300.jpeg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image-4.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/image-4-300x179.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout his expectation-defying career, Kirkeby has also been a geologist, poet, sculptor, and filmmaker. He has always been allergic to routine and convention. But with his recent painterly interventions on Masonite board, which echo pieces made but little noticed in the 1960s, the artist is pondering whether he\u2019s finally found\u00a0his groove \u2014 and whether that is a good thing. A cross-section of Kirkeby\u2019s paintings and sculptures are currently on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., through January 6, 2013, the most extensive U.S. survey of his work to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interview excerpt published in December 2012 issue of Modern Painters, also online via Artinfo. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artinfo.com\/print\/node\/849760\">Read full article here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View Kirkeby paintings and gallery history on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lalouver.com\/html\/artist.cfm?tArtist_id=128\">profile page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his expectation-defying career, Kirkeby has also been a geologist, poet, sculptor, and filmmaker. He has always been allergic to routine and convention. 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