The second volume cataloguing the Danish artist's iconic brick sculptures. Beginning in 1966
Per Kirkeby created more than 150 brick sculptures throughout his lifetime. Initially Kirkeby
was drawn to the essential qualities of bricks as a unit of architectural design and a symbol
of human civilization - being the same size as the human hand. While Kirkeby was undoubtedly
alluding to the simplicity and order of Minimalism at the time the Danish artist was also
looking beyond aesthetic purity to the pictorial and narrative possibilities of bricks.
Although Kirkeby is revered for his painting his brick sculptures represent his most instantly
recognisable work in a material so familiar that it is almost invisible. At once ornamental
functional architectural and purposeless Kirkeby's brick sculptures have become an iconic
symbol of Danish modern art. This is the second volume of a three-volume catalogue raisonné
on the brick works together offering a comprehensive overview of his output from 1966 until
his death in 2018. This volume concentrates on Kirkeby's unrealised brick sculptures from 1983
to 2017. From smaller installations for exhibitions to private commissions and city planning
projects none of these sculptures were ever realised at their proposed site and are presented
to the public for the first time in this book. Contributions from the likes of Hans Ulrich
Obrist and Robert Storr provide further context to these important works.
