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The Los Angeles exhibition will present work by the core Cobra group from the New York exhibition as well as works by Derek Aylward, Enrico Baj,В Joe Bradley, Victoria Burge,В Jean Dubuffet, Ed van der Elsken, Mark Flood,В Magdalena Suarez Frimkess,В Michael Frimkess, Gelitin,В Mark Grotjahn,В Karin Gulbran, Rashid Johnson, Jacqueline de Jong, Per Kirkeby, Friedrich Kunath,В Alice Mackler, Eddie Martinez,В Bjarne Melgaard, Albert Oehlen, A.R.

This transgenerational presentation will underscore the urgency of this reexamination of Cobra-by viewing the movementвЂ™s groundbreaking experiments and ideas through the lens of the present day.ДЄmong artists in the New York exhibition are Pierre Alechinsky, Else Alfelt, Karel Appel, EugГЁne Brands, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Henry Heerup, Egill Jacobsen, Asger Jorn, Ernest Mancoba, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Raoul Ubac.

#Poe polymath series

To this end, the exhibition in Los Angeles will propose a series of historical and contemporary juxtapositions by a range of living artists. This broad understanding of Cobra artistsвЂ™ artistic and discursive output reveals them to be dynamic figures, whose legacy continues to impact the art of today. In tracing this complex web of artists and ideas, the history that unfolds insists upon a more complex genealogy of one of the least understood, yet important movements of the last sixty years. In fact, CobraвЂ™s ideas and aesthetics were only realized in the two decades that followed-blossoming into aВ relentless multinational, literary, political, and radically polymath exploration of numerous artistic media. The Avant-Garde WonвЂ™t Give Up will argue that Cobra did not end with the formal disbanding of the group in 1951. While maintaining his exchange with Cobra artists, Jorn also widened his circle of collaboration and exchange with members of the Italian neo-avant-garde, such as Enrico Baj and Lucio Fontana, as well as artists such as Jean Dubuffet. Including later вЂњmodification paintingsвЂќ (interventions or dГ©tournements on anonymous paintings bought in flea markets), abstract paintings utilizing unconventional materials, and experimentations with ceramics and textiles, JornвЂ™s later output shows the fruition of many of the ideas that first germinated in the Cobra period. The latter half of the exhibition, taking place in Los Angeles, will cast its view beyond the formal ending of Cobra in 1951 by following the political activities and aesthetic experiments of Asger Jorn through the 1950s to his death in 1973.

Named after a seminal work by Cobra founder Asger Jorn (Danish, 1914-73), The Avant-Garde WonвЂ™t Give Up pays tribute to JornвЂ™s catalyzing role and to the movementвЂ™s enduring aesthetic and conceptual influence on artists working today. The exhibition follows the solo exhibition of Karel Appel, one of the movementвЂ™s key protagonists, presented at Blum & Poe, New York in September 2014. Opening reception: Thursday, November 5, 6вЂ“8pmД«lum & Poe is pleased to present The Avant-Garde WonвЂ™t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy, the second installment of a two-part exhibition which began in New York and now opens in Los Angeles, offering a broad and critical reassessment of Cobra-an essential postwar European movement named for the home cities Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam.