{"title":"Asger Jorn","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsger Jorn (1914–1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, and writer, and one of the most significant figures in postwar European avant-garde culture. Co-founder of the CoBrA movement (1948–1951) alongside Karel Appel, Constant, and Corneille, Jorn was central to the development of expressive abstraction, experimental publishing, and collaborative artistic practice across postwar Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1957 Jorn became a founding member of the Situationist International alongside Guy Debord, contributing both theoretical writing and visual work to the movement’s critique of spectacle, urbanism, and consumer culture. His practice moved fluidly between painting, political critique, ceramics, artist books, and institutional disruption — including his “modifications” series, in which he overpainted cheap found paintings to produce new works that challenged notions of authorship, value, and artistic hierarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJorn exhibited widely across Europe throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, and his work is held in major international collections. He died in Aarhus in 1973. This collection brings together printed matter and ephemera connected to Jorn’s exhibitions and institutional presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"jorn-lens-fine-art-inv-1972","title":"Asger Jorn — Exhibition Invitation Card, Lens Fine Art, Antwerpen, 1972","description":"\u003cp\u003eExhibition invitation card\u003cbr\u003eLens Fine Art, Mechelsesteenweg 146, Antwerpen\u003cbr\u003e15 × 15 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on orange card stock\u003cbr\u003eText in Dutch and French\u003cbr\u003eOpening: Thursday 7 December 1972, 18h\u003cbr\u003eExhibition: 7 December 1972 – 27 January 1973\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued by Lens Fine Art, Antwerp, for an exhibition of paintings, gouaches, and prints by Asger Jorn. The card belongs to the later period of the Danish artist — co-founder of the CoBrA movement and one of the key figures linking postwar European abstraction, Situationist thought, and experimental painting culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1972, Jorn had already become a near-mythic figure within European avant-garde circles. His work moved fluidly between expressive painting, political critique, publishing, ceramics, and collaborative forms of authorship. Objects like this survive as small administrative traces from that network: regional gallery infrastructure carrying the residue of a much larger cultural shift happening across postwar Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bilingual typography and stark monochrome orange stock place the card firmly within the visual economy of early 1970s continental gallery culture — functional, inexpensive, direct. Not designed as a collectible object, but as temporary exhibition support material intended for mailing, handling, and eventual disposal. Very few survive cleanly, especially from secondary European galleries outside major institutional archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompared to museum posters or later CoBrA reproductions, invitations from this period remain relatively scarce on the market. A concise and unusually elegant Jorn-related paper object.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good vintage condition. Light handling wear, faint edge rubbing, minor corner softening and age toning consistent with stored gallery ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53762541551954,"sku":"JORN-LENS-INV-1972","price":110.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Jorn_Asger._Show_invite_Lens_Fine_Art._1972_front.jpg?v=1781604867"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/asger-jorn.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}