{"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\/products\/jorn-lens-fine-art-inv-1972","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}