Junge Kunst 46: Asger Jorn

The Danish painter, graphic artist and sculptor Asger Jorn (1914-1973) is one of the most influential European artists of the post-war period. His experimental art combines surrealism, Dada, abstract expressionism, informal art and action painting with Scandinavian folk art and Nordic mythology.

With his multifaceted, poetic, boundary-dissolving, politically committed and imaginative art, Asger Jorn has created an important oeuvre that sees itself as a contribution to the artistic revolution and cultural evolution - not only in the North. His art is a plea for the aesthetics of the trivial, chaotic, humorous and fantastic, his works represent a playful aesthetic vandalism that, in its value-free and sometimes naive impartiality, formulates an alternative to the idealistic and academic-programmatic conceptions of art of modernism. The volume shows works by Asger Jorn from all years of his work and is being created for the exhibition Asger Jorn. Den røde jord. Expressionism and Abstraction in the Museum Peter August Böckstiegel, Werther, in cooperation with the Museum Jorn in Silkeborg. In its second stop, the exhibition will be shown in 2025 in the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen.