Asger Jorn à Silkeborg
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| Asger Jorn à Silkeborg | |
| Authors | Asger Jorn, Troels Andersen, Jean Dubuffet & Erik Nyholm |
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| Publisher | Silkeborg Kunstmuseum |
| Publishing date | 1978 |
| ISBN | 87-980325-6-9 |
Asger Jorn à Silkeborg Le musée d’un peintre (Asger Jorn in Silkeborg, a painter’s museum) is a partial catalogue of works held by the Silkeborg Museum of Art with a focus on the art of Danish painter Asger Jorn and the relationship that the museum’s other works have with Jorn’s art. The contents were published in 1978 by the museum in the French language and under the direction of Troels Andersen, who was the museum’s director from 1973-2004.
Contents
The book contains the following sections:
- Biography of Jorn
- Essay Origins and Paths of Unity by Asger Jorn, from the publication Asger Jorn: Pour la forme, Paris 1957, pp. 131-132
- Essay Intimate Banalities by Asger Jorn, from the magazine Helhesten, Volume I, Number 2, Copenhagen 1941, pp. 33-38
- Essay The Collections of Asger Jorn in Silkeborg by Troels Andersen
- A brief description of French artist Jean Dubuffet’s work Épokhè, a large sculpture that Jorn commissioned from Dubuffet for the external façade of the Silkeborg Art Museum
- Essay Have Fun by Erik Nyholm
Essays
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Jean Dubuffet’s mural Épokhè for the Silkeborg Museum of Art
Adjacent to the entrance to the museum is a large mural by French artist Jean Dubuffet, which frames a space dedicated to small sculptural installations in the landscape.
At the end of the sixties, Asger Jorn, in his efforts to create a new art museum in Silkeborg, asked his friend Jean Dubuffet for permission to erect a large sculpture of his in front of the museum. Jean Dubuffet approved the project. After the death of Jorn, the plans for the construction of the existing museum had to be modified and Dubuffet again satisfied the museum’s proposals by accepting that his sketch for a large ceramic wall, originally commissioned by the French State in 1965, should be incorporated at the outer facade of the new Silkeborg Museum.
The relief is entitled Épokhè. It is a term that belongs to the philosophical language and means “suspension of judgment.” The wall measures 4.5 m by 22.5 m. It was realized by the Danish ceramist Erik Nyholm in collaboration with the workshop “Ild og ler” in Jutland.
- Troels Andersen, Asger Jorn à Silkeborg. Le musée d'un peintre. 1978, Silkeborg Kunstmuseum
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