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Per Kirkeby — Layered Paintings
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Weight as Mark

Weight as Mark

Per Kirkeby — Layered Paintings

The paintings accumulate dense layers of pigment.

Compression replaces brushwork.

Mark becomes structural.

Field holds through material pressure.

Structure persists through controlled density.

What builds over time?
Marks are often read as gestures laid onto a surface. Here they accumulate until gesture is no longer the point. Compression replaces touch. What builds over time is density rather than image. The surface holds because pressure never releases.

Marks are often read as gestures laid onto a surface.

Here they accumulate until gesture is no longer the point.

Compression replaces touch.

What builds over time is density rather than image.

The surface holds because pressure never releases.

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