Asger Jorn

With his multifaceted, poetic, boundary-breaking, politically engaged, and imaginative art, Asger Jorn has created a significant body of work that can be seen as a contribution to 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 a counter-concept to the idealistic and academically programmatic views of art in modernism. The volume presents works by Asger Jorn from all periods of his career and accompanies the exhibition Asger Jorn. The røde jord. Expressionism and Abstraction at the Museum Peter August Böckstiegel, Werther, in cooperation with the Museum Jorn in Silkeborg. The exhibition will then move to the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen in 2025.