Asger Jorn (f. Vejrum 1914, d. Århus 1973) Guy Ernest Debord (f. Paris 1931, d. Bellevue-la-Montagne 1994) Asger Jorn, Guy Ernest Debord: “Fin de Copenhague”, 1957. Booket signed Jorn and GE Debord, 67/200. Édite par le Bauhaus Imaginiste. By Permild & Rosengreen, Copenhagen. Original binding. 28,5×20,5 cm. The original, unreproducible covers, made of super-tactile flong embossed with pages from newspapers, were all different. This book documents a unique moment of collaboaration between an expressionist painteer and a radical filmmaker, through a form of spontaneous and collective artistic production. The experiment, unique in both artist's oeuvre, combines photolithographs of Jorn: paint drips with images from a local newsstand of ads, building plans, photographs etc. The book was made during 24 hours as an artistic experiment. The book is, with its many cards and names of places, a kind of psychological landscape, an intoxicated cartography, and Jorn's final goodbye to Copenhagen. The most sought-after of Jorn's books. Provenance: Present from Jorn to Stavngaard family, proprieters of the Artpress and publisher Langwagen and Stavngaard.
