David Carrier reviews the exhibition Per Kirkeby New Paintings at Michael Werner Gallery, New York.

"Like Willem de Kooning, Kirkeby is a virtuoso at creating unity from… visual chaos… We Americans tend to think that Abstract Expressionism is a style of the past, dependent upon a worldview that no longer commands assent. And we have become suspicious of painterly virtuosity. This exhibition shows that we are wrong – Kirkeby’s splendid paintings demonstrate that Abstract Expressionism is a living tradition."