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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Editor | Michael Semff, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München |
Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
Year | 2014 |
Cover | Hardcover |
Language | English, German |
ISBN | 978-3-7757-3898-9 |
Pages | 168 |
Weight | 1160 g |
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Contributors | Michael Semff, Ulrich Wilmes, Poul Erik Tojner |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München in der Pinakothek der Moderne |
Article ID | art-51603 |
Per Kirkeby (* 1938 in Copenhagen) is a one of the most important figures in contemporary Scandinavian art. After receiving a doctorate in geology, Kirkeby joined the Experimental Art School in Copenhagen in 1962 and began to develop the visual idiom through which he has consistently explored the metamorphosis of nature in a wealth of articulations and media. Kirkeby emphatically considers himself a painter.
This context thus informs an examination of his three-dimensional works dating from the early eighties, which he produced with traditional sculpting techniques and cast in bronze. In addition, over the course of his career the artist has produced a substantial body of prints that rival his works in other media.
This catalogue is the first juxtaposition of numerous drypoints and woodcuts by the artist with a series of bronzes. A number of miniature woodcuts dating from the fifties, which were believed to be lost, have been rediscovered and being published for the first time.