(Fig. 1) Still life of unseen still life - Untitled, 2006. (Fig. 2) Object within the still life - Untitled, 2006. Per Kirkeby's "Still Life" solo exhibition is on display from September 8 to October 6 at France and Michael Werner galleries. Born in Denmark in 1938, P. Kirkeby is the only artist in German Neo-Expressionism who stood firm with abstract expressionist painting amidst the storm of figurative painting in the 1980s, becoming a Nordic artist most instinctive and lyrical in abstract expressionism. Although influenced comprehensively by Beuys early on, he ultimately lacked the historical encounters and trauma of the Germanic people, choosing paths suitable for his own personality. Gradually, in the early 1980s, he established his own lyrical abstract expressionist style. With rough brushstrokes close to de Kooning’s sensibility and colors of strong light-dark contrast, he reveals a rich and variable natural form world, unique in the generous style of American abstract expressionism. Recently, Per Kirkeby has abandoned the ever-changing natural world; in the unconventional return to traditional "still life" themes, he uses the subject to express himself and continues to deepen his sensual painting. Irregular forms have been refined into color fields, and multiple variations of sensual brushstrokes are more rhythmic. Metaphorical still-life objects like glasses and other images inhabit color field scenes, where color-field objects merge into the painted surface with sensual brushstrokes, embodying endless space within rigorous and perfect structural forms, bright light, and some natural symbolic formal elements, simultaneously expressing lyrical emotions and a unique poetic temperament. In the still-life painting theme of "still life under the unseen still life," he expresses sensibility through the subject, because painting is the sum of form and color, so painting is truly Per Kirkeby's main theme and area of exploration.