FORMĂ +/- FUNCȚIUNE: O investigație spațială asupra sculpturilor-arhitectură ale lui Per Kirkeby

Per Kirke by (1938-2018) was a multidisciplinary Danish artist, mostly acknowledged for his abstract- expressionist paintings, while his interest in spatial arts (sculpture, architecture, scenography) has been less researched. Initially trained as a geologist, he was influenced during his entire and varied artistic career by this specific perspective, as a leitmotif of sedimentation processes and superposition of layers. While his paintings reveal this concept in a straight-forward manner, his metaphorical brick sculptures unveil it in a more subtle way. Often called “architecture with out purpose”, Kirkeby’s brick sculptures are actually far more in-vested with spatial semantics that transcend the first layer of reading.