Asger Jorn — Exhibition Invitation Card, Lens Fine Art, Antwerpen, 1972

Lens Fine Art, Mechelsesteenweg 146, Antwerpen
Text in Dutch and French
Opening: Thursday 7 December 1972, 18h
Exhibition: 7 December 1972 – 27 January 1973

Issued 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.

By 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.

The 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.

Compared 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.

Shipping and handling included.