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SWEDEN / Stockholm: COMPARATIVE VANDALISM
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday February 19 2017

Moderna Museet Stockholm
T : +46 8 5202 3500
Skeppsholmen
SE-111 49 Stockholm
Sweden



PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE ASGER JORN ARCHIVE

In the late 1950s, the multifaceted artist Asger Jorn (1914–1973, Denmark) began working on an alternative art history: his ‘Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism’.

Jorn intended to create an encyclopaedia in 32 volumes covering Nordic folk art, but tens of thousands of photos for the project ended up unused in a massive archive. The exhibition Comparative Vandalism, which is about the potential of art, is based on these images.

© Modem