17.1.-30.12.2023
DETOURNEMENT
Asger Jorn's modifications
17.1.-30.12.2023
Asger Jorn's modifications
In the years around 1960, Asger Jorn bought at flea markets in Paris a number of paintings that society had written off as kitsch. He continued to paint on them, thus giving them a new artistic quality and meaning. Jorn called this series of works modifications and the method detournement – distortion in French. With his modifications, Jorn wanted to raise a critical discussion about the position of art in the society, the bourgeois view of art and the commercial art market.
The exhibition presents a large part of the museum’s collection of Jorn’s modifications – including Jorn’s first modification experiment on postcards, Raphael’s angels from around 1946, and the main work The Unsettling Duckling from 1959.
Asger Jorn
Den foruroligende ælling, 1959
Asger Jorn
Mater profana (Profan moder), 1960
Asger Jorn
Rafaels engle, ca. 1946
Asger Jorn
Uden titel, 1962