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EXHIBITION OF
PER KIRKEBY "LIGNUM VITAE"
19 April – 20 May 2012
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Per Kirkeby. Seven etchings.
Sheet IV. 1991. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg. Photographer
Lars Bay |
On Thursday 24 May
at 6 pm, the exhibition Per Kirkeby. Lignum
vitae, presenting etchings, sculptures and
photographs by Per Kirkeby, the
internationally acclaimed contemporary
Danish painter, printmaker, sculptor,
filmmaker, writer and stage designer, opens
at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius.
This exhibition marks Denmark’s 2012
presidency of the Council of the European
Union.
The press conference will take place on
Thursday 24 May at 11 am. The speakers will
be: H.E. J¸rgen Molde, ambassador of Denmark
to Lithuania, Ms Lolita Jablonskienë, chief
curator of the National Gallery of Art, Mr
Jacob Thage, director of the Museum Jorn,
Silkeborg, Ms Teresa ¨stergaard Pedersen and
Ms Milda Þvirblytë, the exhibition curators,
and Ms Jûratë Nedzinskienë, head of the
Private Banking Division of Danske bankas,
the patron of the exhibition.
On Thursday 24 May at 6 pm, the exhibition
Per Kirkeby. Lignum vitae presenting prints,
sculptures and photographs by Per Kirkeby
(b. 1938), the internationally famous
contemporary Danish painter, printmaker,
sculptor, filmmaker, writer and stage
designer, opens at the National Gallery of
Art in Vilnius. The artist will attend the
opening ceremony.
This exhibition, curated specially for the
National Gallery of Art, consists of
Kirkeby’s etchings from the unique
collection held by the Museum Jorn,
Silkeborg (Denmark), bronze sculptures from
the Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, and
archival material from ARoS Aarhus
Kunstmuseum. Altogether, there will be 59
black and white and colour prints, two
bronze sculptures and 80 Polaroid
photographs.
Kirkeby’s expressive paintings and his
collaboration with the film director Lars
von Trier on the visual identity of his
films are world famous. A major
retrospective of Kirkeby’s work was held at
Tate Modern in 2009, and this year at the
Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
The exhibition Per Kirkeby. Lignum vitae at
the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius aims
to show the process of the artist’s creative
work: his interest in how structures express
themselves through the systematic repetition
of a motif, and transformations of it. The
show focuses on the motifs of the tree and
the tree stump. The tree manifests itself in
various forms in the etchings and
sculptures, and secretly makes its way into
other structural elements, eventually
displacing them. The artist’s interest in
structure and his idiosyncratic style of
creative thinking have been influenced by
some important factors. While he was
studying geology at the University of
Copenhagen from 1957 to 1964, he also
attended the alternative Experimental Art
School. At the time, he joined several
expeditions to Greenland, the landscapes of
which left an enormous impression on him.
An illustrated catalogue of the exhibition
is published in Lithuanian and English. The
exhibition will be accompanied by a special
programme of films and lectures on Per
Kirkeby’s work, and its links with
contemporary Lithuanian painting.
Exhibition curators: Teresa
¨stergaard Pedersen (Museum Jorn, Silkeborg)
and Milda Þvirblytë (National Gallery of
Art).
Project partner: the Danish Embassy
in Lithuania. The exhibition marks Denmark’s
2012 presidency of the Council of the
European Union.
Exhibition organisers: the National
Gallery of Art and the Museum Jorn,
Silkeborg.
Project patron: Danske bankas.
General sponsor: BTA insurance
company.
Sponsors: Culture Support Foundation,
DSV Transport, DFDS Seaways, Best Western
Vilnius, Exterus.
To mark the occasion of Per Kirkeby’s
exhibition in Vilnius, the National Gallery
of Art is presenting a renewed exhibition in
one of its permanent collection halls,
introducing the transformation of Lithuanian
landscape painting at the end of the 20th
century and the beginning of the 21st
century. The exhibition, curated by Milda
Þvirblytë, features paintings by Henrikas
Èerapas, Jonas Gasiûnas, Rimvidas
Jankauskas-Kampas and Arûnas Vaitkûnas, from
the Lithuanian Art Museum, the M.K.
Èiurlionis Art Museum, and private
collections.
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more information, please call (+370 5)
212 29 97
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