In "Strategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn's Modification Paintings," curators Axel Heil and Roberto Ohrt framed Jorn's practice of détournement as a kind of ground zero for various strains of…
The best-known works by Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914–1973) are eccentric, quasi-abstract paintings featuring wildly distorted faces, figures, and animals executed with feverish brushwork in acid col…