Asger Jorn

The first personal exhibition from Asger Jorn in a Parisian museum since 1978. "Stay right in touch, and distinguished with it. Painting is done for. Might as well give it the coup de grâce. Turn it around. Long live painting."

Asger Jorn (1914-1973), the co-founder of the Cobra movement in 1948, was the most significant Danish artist of the 20th century. The art of Asger Jorn is essentially spontaneous, dynamic and coloured. His figurative art, of great expressive intensity, is marked by Scandinavian mythology and its fantastic bestiary. The Cobra movement gave him new freedom that pushed him towards often violently expressive abstraction.