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Asger Jorn (1914-1973) is a central figure in 20th-century Danish art. A truly boundary-crossing artist, he was engaged in the international art world, via Cobra and the Situationist International movement, while also reformulating the artist's role in society. His challenging of art's materials was legendary and lifelong. He worked in all known expressions of the visual arts and had a penchant for exploding what he considered irrelevant categories. This was most clearly manifested in his work with folk art and the avant-garde, architecture and art, and the artwork as a collective practice.
Jorn had a profound knowledge of art history and, in his art as well as in his widely eclectic writings, making interconnections of all sorts was a constant preoccupation. This was the case in 1962-65 when he endeavoured to produce a 32-volume work compiling all Nordic folk art. His thinking, drawing on his vast reading of fiction as well as the sciences and humanities, was at times eye opening and highly influential on the communication of art in general, at other times strange and exotic.
In the context of Louisiana, Jorn is first and foremost a painter. For years the museum has owned several important works by the artist, but only after two game-changing donations by Jytte and Dennis Dresing, in 1999 and 2004, of 11 works in all, did the museum possess a collection fine enough to justify having an Asger Jorn Gallery. In recent years, moreover, Louisiana has acquired a number of works made during the artist's involvement in the Situationist International from 1958-63.
右邊紅色這幅: Untitled, 1943-44