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By Jan LaValley /
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“Aesthetics only work to a point for me. I appreciate fine arts in that context but I’m always looking for something more,” says artist and Woodville resident John Kirchner.
Kirchner has been busy setting up and hanging a show of his conceptual art at the University of Virginia’s Artspace Gallery located on the third floor of Newcomb Hall. The show opens Jan. 28 and runs through Feb. 21.
It is titled “A Theoretical Parade” and his work is representative of the larger picture he sees of the world around him and his very individual reaction to that world. He has been working along that vein for the last 20 years, he said.
Kirchner’s work is not “pretty” and it’s not meant to be. Each finished piece is a reflection of the concept and purpose behind it rather than being a finished piece culminating from an idea into a pleasing “objet d’art." What is important to him is the reason behind creating a work. The work itself, once finished, is only important if the viewer understands the idea behind it.
Although educated in the classical tradition at the Pratt Institute in New York, the University of Kobenhaven in Denmark and the Architectural Association in London (his father, an architect, wanted him to follow in his footsteps), Kirchner said, “I’ve always sort of followed my ideas around — wherever they go I’ve followed behind.
“I started leaving the aes
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