Per Kirkeby: A Geologist’s Palette – Shaping Landscapes of the Mind Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on September 1st, 1938, Per Kirkeby emerged from a world steeped in both scientific rigor and artistic yearning. His early life, marked by his father's engineering career and his mother’s background in education, provided a foundation for an intellectual curiosity that would profoundly shape his multifaceted artistic practice. Initially pu…