RE : Situationist Paintings - Asger Jorn

From: Rannou Pierre (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2008 - 13:15:39 PDT


This is not related to the work with Debord. It's an independent production exposed in may 1959 at the gallery Rive Gauche, with a presentation text titled "Modifications. Peinture détournée". It was reproduced in Textes et documents situationnistes 1957-1960 (Allia, 2004) and Discours aux peinguins (ENSBA, 2001).
 
Pierre

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De: Experimental Film Discussion List de la part de Rob Gawthrop
Date: sam. 2008-08-16 19:13
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Objet : Re: Situationist Paintings - Asger Jorn

I don't know but I guess you're right abourt the work with Debord.

(I'll be out of contact for a couple of weeks so wont be able to contribute further)

Rob

On 16/8/08 21:33, "Eli Horwatt" <email suppressed> wrote:

        Thanks Rob, but are you aware of any of these "updated" paintings? I can't figure out if it was tied to his work with Debord on Memoires. Have you heard of these?
        
        Eli
        
        On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Rob Gawthrop <email suppressed> wrote:
        

                Asger Jorn was connected to Cobra and then the International movement of Imagist Bauhaus, people associated with this and others associated with the Lettrists (particularly Guy Debord) formed the Situationist International. The painters associated with Cobra (the most well known being Karel Appel) made works that were deliberately child-like, similar to Art-Brut but being Marxist were suspicious of expression and were essentially "critical" works that combined figuration, gestural marks and "paint".
                The're not too difficult to find.
                
                Rob
                
                
                
                On 16/8/08 19:05, "Eli Horwatt" <email suppressed> wrote:
                
                

                        A year ago I came across a brief description of a Situationist painter who had "updated" classical paintings to make them contemporary. I was almost certain this was Asger Jörn, but I cannot locate a passage describing these works. Does anyone remember these paintings or have a lead on where a description of these paintings might be found?
                        
                        Thanks!
                        
                        Eli Horwatt
                        
                        
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