Per Kirkeby Creates Specific Work for Beulas Foundation’s Art and Nature Center

HUESCA, SPAIN.- Per Kirkeby studied Geology at the University of Copenhaguen and later he enrolled in the School of Experimental Art (‘Ex-School’) of Copenhagen, where he opted for the painting, the graphical design, the cinema in 8 mm and the performance. His profound engagement with nature has enabled him to use it as a tool to present his particular form of viewing the world. In 1973 Kirkeby decided to make sculptures with a little used material: brick, and made the first in a series of architecturally looking “public art” works in Ikast (Jutland) which, subtended by a strong intentionality, have since been disseminated throughout the whole of Europe. Per Kirkeby’s works not only push back the limits of sculptural techniques towards construction, appropriating brick, the core charismatic material of architectural

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