Asger Jorn & Per Kirkeby
This summer, The Nordic Watercolour Museum is presenting an extensive exhibition of watercolours and drawings by Asger Jorn and Per Kirkeby. Although they belong to different generations, their works are united by a shared engagement with painting’s endless pursuit of its inner magic. Asger Jorn (1914–1973) was one of the most influential figures of the European avant-garde art – a co-founder of the influential CoBrA movement, and a champion of spontaneous, free creation as a counterforce to convention and control. Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) represents another kind of artistic vision, one in which the structures of nature and time form the basis of creation. Kirkeby was one of the major renewers of neo-expressionist painting in the 1980s.
