From: Eli Horwatt (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2008 - 17:10:03 PDT
Thanks Pierre,
That was exactly it.
Eli
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Rannou Pierre <
email suppressed> wrote:
> This is not related to the work with Debord. It's an independent production
> exposed in may 1959 at the gallery Rive Gauche, with a presentation text
> titled "Modifications. Peinture détournée". It was reproduced in Textes et
> documents situationnistes 1957-1960 (Allia, 2004) and Discours aux peinguins
> (ENSBA, 2001).
>
> Pierre
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> De: Experimental Film Discussion List de la part de Rob Gawthrop
> Date: sam. 2008-08-16 19:13
> À: email suppressed
> Objet : Re: Situationist Paintings - Asger Jorn
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>
> I don't know but I guess you're right abourt the work with Debord.
>
>
>
> (I'll be out of contact for a couple of weeks so wont be able to contribute
> further)
>
> Rob
>
> On 16/8/08 21:33, "Eli Horwatt" <email suppressed> wrote:
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>
> Thanks Rob, but are you aware of any of these "updated" paintings? I
> can't figure out if it was tied to his work with Debord on Memoires. Have
> you heard of these?
>
> Eli
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Rob Gawthrop <
> email suppressed> wrote:
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>
> Asger Jorn was connected to Cobra and then the International
> movement of Imagist Bauhaus, people associated with this and others
> associated with the Lettrists (particularly Guy Debord) formed the
> Situationist International. The painters associated with Cobra (the most
> well known being Karel Appel) made works that were deliberately child-like,
> similar to Art-Brut but being Marxist were suspicious of expression and were
> essentially "critical" works that combined figuration, gestural marks and
> "paint".
> The're not too difficult to find.
>
> Rob
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>
>
> On 16/8/08 19:05, "Eli Horwatt" <email suppressed> wrote:
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>
>
> A year ago I came across a brief description of a
> Situationist painter who had "updated" classical paintings to make them
> contemporary. I was almost certain this was Asger Jörn, but I cannot locate
> a passage describing these works. Does anyone remember these paintings or
> have a lead on where a description of these paintings might be found?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Eli Horwatt
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