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Press Release Asger Jorn Press Release Asger Jorn The Prints March 23―June 30, 2019 Mönchsberg [4] A twofold premiere: the first comprehensive retrospective of the work Press of Asger Jorn (1914 Vejrum, DK―1973 Aarhus, DK) in Austria will also Mönchsberg 32 be the first exhibition outside Denmark to present the artist’s entire 5020 Salzburg printed oeuvre. Austria T +43 662 842220-601 Salzburg, March 22, 2019. In the exhibition Asger Jorn. The Prints, the F +43 662 842220-700 Museum der Moderne Salzburg presents around 550 works of graphic art by [email protected] the preeminent Danish visual artist, including lithographs, woodcuts, www.museumdermoderne.at etchings, linocuts, silkscreen prints, and potato prints. “As with past exhibition projects, we are drawing on our own collection; fine art prints make up half of our holdings, and among them are works by Asger Jorn given to the museum by its founding director, Otto Breicha, that are now on view in our galleries. A generous loan from the Museum Jorn enables us to show the complete set of ca. 550 prints, the first such presentation anywhere in the world,” Thorsten Sadowsky, director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, notes. An ensemble of fifty-two works dating from between 1933 and 1939 that were recently rediscovered in Denmark and have been on public display only once is also on its way to Salzburg. Complementing his work in painting—and, to Jorn’s mind, in no way secondary to it—the prints he created between the 1930s and 1970s bear witness to the artist’s zest for experimentation and his interest in the potentials of his materials as well as his prodigious fabulist’s imagination and wit. Like no other artist, he stands at the juncture between the classic Expressionism of the early twentieth century and the figurative-expressive tendencies in contemporary art, forging a synthesis of Surrealism, art informel, action painting, and Nordic folk art. Determined to create a distinctively Scandinavian modernism, he often draws inspiration from Norse mythology, legends, and a pantheon populated by failed personalities. In pictures and extensive writings, Jorn celebrates a merry artistic vandalism that jettisons all classical conceptions of value and form and instead embraces the creation of the marvelous, unwonted, mysterious, imaginary, and chaotic as the true mission of art. Jorn the political artist and networker In pursuit of his goal of integrating art, politics, and society, Jorn, a lifelong avid networker, starts cultivating contacts in numerous countries in the 1930s. Between 1936 and 1938, he is in Paris, where he frequents Fernand Léger’s Atelier de l’Art Contemporain and exchanges ideas with Le Corbusier. In occupied Denmark, he collaborates on the journal Helhesten (Hell-Horse), the unofficial organ of the artistic resistance, seeking to disseminate subcultural phenomena and ideas vilified by the National Socialists, and in 1942 he is actively involved in printing and distributing the banned communist monthly Land og Folk. Resuming his networking activities after the end of World War II, Jorn, in the fall of 1948, teams up Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum Betriebsgesellschaft mbH FN 2386452 1/3 Press Release Asger Jorn. The Prints Firmenbuchgericht Salzburg Press with Danish, Belgian, and Dutch artists to found the group Cobra—the moniker is an acronym combining the English names of the three countries’ T +43 662 842220-601 F +43 662 842220-700 capitals. Cobra’s members share his enthusiasm for a radically visionary art that defies all boundaries of genre and is characterized by spontaneity, [email protected] experimentation, and openness. Jorn goes on to initiate a series of artist www.museumdermoderne.at collectives with varying aims, including the Movement for an Imaginary Bauhaus, the Situationist International, and the Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism. Irrepressible in his excitements and restless in his embrace of creative innovation, Asger Jorn puts his stamp on the evolving modern conception of art and is a major influence on the postwar avant- gardes; together with Edvard Munch and Per Kirkeby, he is now recognized as one of the most important Scandinavian artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition is produced in cooperation with the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, DK, and is accompanied by a publication. Exhibition catalogue Errations in Wood, Copper and Stone. Asger Jorn’s Prints Edited by Thorsten Sadowsky for the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. With texts by Lucas Haberkorn, Barbara Herzog, Lena Nievers and Thorsten Sadowsky Hardcover, ca. 144 p., ca. 100 ill. Hirmer Verlag, Munich, 2019 ISBN 978-3-943616-63-7 € 20 With generous support from Curators: Thorsten Sadowsky with Barbara Herzog and Lena Nievers 2/3 Press Release Asger Jorn. The Prints Press Press contact Martin Moser T +43 662 842220-601 F +43 662 842220-700 T +43 662 842220-601 M +43 664 8549 983 [email protected] [email protected] www.museumdermoderne.at Visitor information Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg 32 5020 Salzburg, Austria T +43 662 842220 [email protected], www.museumdermoderne.at Hours Tue―Sun 10 a.m.―6 p.m. Wed 10 a.m.―8 p.m. During the festival season also Mon 10 a.m.―8 p.m. Admission Mönchsberg Regular € 8 Reduced € 6 Families € 12 Groups € 7 Tickets with reduced Mönchsberg lift tariff available at the bottom station. 3/3 Press Release Asger Jorn. The Prints Press Images Asger Jorn The Prints March 23―June 30, 2019 Mönchsberg [4] The use of visual material is permitted exclusively in connection with Press coverage of the exhibition and with reference to the cited picture captions and copyrights. No work may be cut nor altered in any way. Mönchsberg 32 5020 Salzburg Download: http://www.museumdermoderne.at/en/press/ Austria Username: press T +43 662 842220-601 Password: 456789 F +43 662 842220-700 [email protected] www.museumdermoderne.at Asger Jorn Untitled, 1933―1939, print 2018 linocut Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn Caresse Géologique, 1942 (Geological Caress) From the series Occupations, 1960 Etching with aquatint Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn Untitled, 1950 Cover of the Asger Jorn issue of the Cobra library Colour lithograph © Museum der Moderne Salzburg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum Betriebsgesellschaft mbH FN 2386452 1/4 Press Images Asger Jorn. The Prints Firmenbuchgericht Salzburg Press T +43 662 842220-601 F +43 662 842220-700 [email protected] Asger Jorn www.museumdermoderne.at Frugtsommelig sygeplejerske, 1952 (Pregnant Nurse) Colour linocut and colour woodcut Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn Cornu, 1954 (Cuckold) From the series 43 Radierungen, 1953–54 Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Wien, 2019 Asger Jorn Les Suédoises s’amusent, 1955 (The Swedish Women Are Amusing Themselves) Colour lithograph Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 2/4 Press Images Asger Jorn. The Prints Press T +43 662 842220-601 F +43 662 842220-700 Asger Jorn [email protected] Portrait de Trois Imprimeurs, www.museumdermoderne.at 1955 (Portrait of Three Printers) Colour lithograph Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn Untitled, 1955 Coloured potato print, watercolours Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn Ursprung der Familie, 1970 (Origin of the Family) From the series Untitled Colour woodcut Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 3/4 Press Images Asger Jorn. The Prints Press T +43 662 842220-601 F +43 662 842220-700 Asger Jorn [email protected] Ausgeschnittene Holzwege, www.museumdermoderne.at 1970 (Errations in Wood) From the series Untitled, 1970 Colour woodcut Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn Nasobois – La laie qui se croit un Sphinx, 1971 (Nasobois – The Wild Sow Who Thought She Was a Sphinx) From the series Études et surprises, 1971 (Studies and Surprises) Colour woodcut Museum Jorn, Silkeborg © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn working on the woodcut series Études et surprises in the printing workshop of Peter Bramsen in Paris, 1971 Archive Museum Jorn, Silkeborg / Photo: Pierre Alechinsky © Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 © Pierre Alechinsky: Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 4/4 Press Images Asger Jorn. The Prints Exhibition Views Asger Jorn The Prints March 23―June 30, 2019 Mönchsberg [4] Press All: Asger Jorn. The Prints Mönchsberg 32 Exhibition view, © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Photo: Rainer Iglar 5020 Salzburg Austria © Asger Jorn: Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Download: www.museumdermoderne.at/en/press/detail/asger-jorn/ T +43 662 842220-601 F +43 662 842220-700 Username: press [email protected] www.museumdermoderne.at Password: 456789 Asger Jorn. The Prints Exhibition view © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Photo: Rainer Iglar © Asger Jorn: Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn. The Prints Exhibition view © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Photo: Rainer Iglar © Asger Jorn: Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Asger Jorn. The Prints Exhibition view © Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Photo: Rainer Iglar © Asger Jorn: Donation Jorn, Silkeborg / Bildrecht, Vienna, 2019 Museum der Moderne – Rupertinum Betriebsgesellschaft
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