[no title] 1995

Curator: This intriguing, untitled work is an etching by the Danish artist Per Kirkeby. It’s part of the Tate collection, and dates from around 1965. Editor: Immediately, I’m struck by the feeling of landscape, but rendered almost as a memory, or a dream of a place, perhaps a craggy cliff-face hovering above water. Curator: Kirkeby was trained as a geologist, and his art often explores the raw materiality of the natural world. He later became deeply involved with the avant-garde Situationist movement. Editor: Yes, you can really sense both that scientific sensibility and then the kind of explosive, almost anarchic mark-making. It’s a curious dance between observation and inner emotion, wouldn't you say? Curator: It really is, yes. I think this piece reminds us that landscapes aren’t just things that are out there. They’re also things we carry inside ourselves, too.