February 9 - March 14, 2002
PER KIRKEBY
Large Scale Monotypes 1993
Etchings from "Feldbuch" 1994
Original Book Covers 1987 - 1994

Curated by Lasse B. Antonsen

Organized in collaboration with Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne.

Catalog with a selection of poems from the artist’s 1994 collection, Now the Painters Rise.

The exhibition was subsequently shown at the Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, November 7 – December 15, 2002, and the University of Maine Museum of Art, March 28 – May 10. 2003. Travel schedule organized by Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management, New York.


POEMS

When he closed his eyes in the hope of catching an afternoon's rest

in the armchair

he began thinking about how the expression

to look death in the eye was a strange expression

it is actually the one thing one cannot look in the eye

even with closed eyes

even the blind painter can create works of art

even if he can't trust the label-reading assistant

for colors can always be interchanged as long as one knows what it is all about

whether it is red or green doesn't make that big a difference

anyway there are too few colors with labels

to satisfy images seen behind closed eyes
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In my sleep I tossed back and forth

the door rattled in its loose lock

ancecdotes couldn't be shaken off

got up to try and stop the draft

and saw all the leaves of the olive trees moving in unison

but for me everything was just an obstacle

my dream was to sleep the painter's sleep
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