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Oracle of DelphiMissing Asger Jorn images resurface in Copenhagen
November 27th 2006 10:20
Ten works by Danish art legend Asger Jorn are making their appearance at a Copenhagen gallery more than 35 years after he put the final touches on them
Whilst the appearance of a single new Asger Jorn work is a sensation., the return of a total of ten works by the Danish master to Copenhagen can only be described as a miracle.
Jorn worked with the décollage art form, which translates iterally as 'take-off' or 'to become unstuck', in the early 1970s - long before it became fashionable. The technique is basically the opposite of collage. Instead of an image being built up from parts of existing images, it is created by cutting and tearing away pieces of an original image.
Gallery owner Anette Birch explained that the ten décollage works, 'Le Miracle', are part of a batch of 18 that Jorn produced in 1971.
There is still no indication as to how or why these works have been missing for such a long time.
Whilst the appearance of a single new Asger Jorn work is a sensation., the return of a total of ten works by the Danish master to Copenhagen can only be described as a miracle.
Jorn worked with the décollage art form, which translates iterally as 'take-off' or 'to become unstuck', in the early 1970s - long before it became fashionable. The technique is basically the opposite of collage. Instead of an image being built up from parts of existing images, it is created by cutting and tearing away pieces of an original image.
Gallery owner Anette Birch explained that the ten décollage works, 'Le Miracle', are part of a batch of 18 that Jorn produced in 1971.
There is still no indication as to how or why these works have been missing for such a long time.
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