EMJ sees A. Jorn
Ewa-Mari Johansson SEES Asger Jorn
When I enter the house and work of art of Asger Jorn in Abisola, a village in northern Italy famous for its earthware pottery,
I am told that the house, where time has stood still for 35 years, will in a few years hopefully be reopened for the public
as a contemporary art and ceramics museum. Making the artist dream come true.
If I should try to describe my encounter with Asger Jorns villa it would sound something like this: Over the threshold and climbing the stairs through the gate I enter another world of art, imagination and swirling colours. The place overwhelmes me as if I was a child; the color and shapes twisting and turning– and again I search for angles, search for the open form.
When I later do my research on Asger Jorn and his life I see that this was a clear force in the art of Asger Jorn and the artist group CoBrA that he helped start. ”We were influenced by the drawings of children, primitive art, /…/ and by fairy tales and myths.”
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