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Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 1987.
Blackboard painting (oil and chalk), 122 x 122 cm. Per Kirkeby, Læsø, 1994.
Oil on canvas, 165 x 165 cm.
The first time Per Kirkeby arrived at the Danish Island Læsø in 1976-77 he was absorbed into the nature of the place. Here, he lived and worked long periods for the rest of his life. The studio on Læsø and the island itself became an important platform for his artistic practice where a constant focus on nature’s wilderness, forms and colours were ever present. Kirkeby’s relation to Læsø was extraordinary. The island was not just a source of inspiration for the artist, but a place for retreat as well. After a visit on the island in 1979 he wrote: “I have really had some visions here: The first day’s ecstasy on the sunbathed sand was an epiphany, and the next morning I was full of solutions and inspiration.” The painting Læsø by Per Kirkeby is one of the most important works the artist created on Læsø and it was later exhibited at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk.
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