Asger Jorn

ASGER JORN (Denmark, 1914-1973).
"Solitude Imaginée", 1953, from the series Schweizer Suite.
Etching, copy 44/50.
Signed and dated.
Measurements: 13.5 x 10.5 cm (footprint); 38 x 27.5 cm (paper); 39.5 x 29.5 cm (frame).

Asger Jorn experimented with spontaneous lines and semi-figurative representations in paintings he called "modifications." "A creative train of thought starts with the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the accidental, the messy, the absurd, the impossible," he wrote.

A Danish painter, sculptor and theorist, Asger Jorn is known for being one of the founders of the COBRA movement, which promoted a spontaneous, expressive and free art inspired by the primitive and the childlike. His style is characterized by gestural brushstrokes, intense colors and deformed or fantastic figures, and he also participated in the Situationist International, combining his artistic production with a strong philosophical and critical charge towards the culture and society of his time. Jorn fought for a total freedom of art. He produced a multiple work, painting, collage, writing, tapestries, sculpture, in the last years of his life, ceramics, and a valuable work on paper (engravings, lithographs, drawings, book illustrations). Jorn also puts his art at the service of a rebellion against the sacred. He published ''The Green Language and Drunkenness'' in 1968, a pamphlet against structuralism.

Awards and recognitions: he was decorated with the Order of the Great Gidouille. Order of the pataphysicists. In 1964 he was awarded a Guggenheim Prize. Prize that was rejected by Jorn with a telegram sent from Paris.

His paintings are represented in the most important museums of modern art around the world, including the British Tate Modern, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.