The Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism ( da, Skandinavisk institut for sammenlignende vandalisme) is a
non-profit
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cultural
institute
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based in
Denmark
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It was founded in 1961 by the
Danish
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artist
Asger Jorn
Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest c ...
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Peter Glob
Peter Vilhelm Glob (20 February 1911 – 20 July 1985), also known as P. V. Glob, was a Danish archaeologist.
Glob was most noted for his investigations of Denmark's bog bodies such as the Tollund Man and Grauballe Man, mummified remains of Iron ...
National Museum of Denmark
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University of Lund
, motto = Ad utrumque
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, budget = SEK 9 billion Sweden. Jorn had recently left the Situationist International, although he continued to support them financially. The stated purpose of the institute was to throw new light upon the Scandinavian culture in the age of migrations and Vikings. For several years, Jorn toured around Scandinavia and Europe with photographer Gérard Franceschi, former photographer for French writer and onetime culture minister
André Malraux
Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and Minister of Culture (France), minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Go ...
on his ''Musée imaginaire'' project, photographing ancient, Romanesque, Scandinavian, and
Gothic
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figurative and decorative motifs in order to trace the connections between Scandinavian and European motifs.
Jacqueline de Jong
Jacqueline de Jong (born 1939) is a Dutch painter, sculptor and graphic artist. She was born in the Dutch town of Hengelo to Jewish parents. Faced with the German invasion, they went into hiding. After an abortive escape attempt to England, he ...
was also involved in several of these excursions.
In 1965, the
Silkeborg
Silkeborg () is a Danish town with a population of 49,747 (1 January 2022).Gerard Franceschi and Ulrik Ross. Jorn was working with the publisher Skandinavisk Forlag in Odense to publish a series of books based on his research and documentation called ''10,000 Years of Nordic Folk Art'' (''10 000 års nordisk folkekunst''). Jorn gave up the project that year, however, when the press Skandinavisk Forlag refused to proceed unless the project was run by a committee of scholars, with Jorn having only one vote. He wanted total control of the subject of each volume.Anneli Fuchs, "Roots and Perspective: Asger Jorn and Tradition in Art," in ''Asger Jorn'' (Ishøj:
Arken Museum of Modern Art
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, 2002), 107 The Institute remained as a sort of imaginary museum, now housed in the
Silkeborg Kunstmuseum
Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, (formerly Silkeborg Kunstmuseum) is an art museum located by Gudenåen in Silkeborg, Denmark. The museum holds the collections that were developed by Asger Jorn (1914–1973) from the early 1950s until his death in 1973, s ...
, home of Jorn's art collection and archives. Jorn continued to publish articles and books on the subject of Nordic art as a tradition independent of what he called the "Classical-Latin" tradition.
A publication series of theoretical texts (without illustration) in the name of the institute (''Meddelelse fra Skandinavisk institut for sammenlignende vandalisme'') encompasses four books, all by Jorn
* ''Naturens Orden'' (1962)
* ''Værdi og økonomi'' (1962)
* ''Held og Hasard'' (1963)
* ''Alfa og Omega'' (1980 posthumous)
References
Notes
* ''Comparative Vandalism: Asger Jorn and the artistic attitude to life'' by
Peter Shield
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