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CHRISTIAN DOTREMONT (Belgium, 1922 - Buizingen, 1979). "Zyzzling aardvark", 1972. India ink on paper. Signed, dated and titled in the lower left corner. Attached certificate signed by Samnuel Vanhoegaerden. Measurements: 98 x 62 cm; 113 x 76,6 cm (frame). This work in Chinese ink has a title difficult to translate, playful and surrealistic, as was in general the work of Christian Dotremont. We could translate it as "Sizzling Anteater" and it carries cryptic meanings. It also suggests a strange, magical and invented calligraphy. Dotremont was a visual poet, who was linked to the group CoBrA. Christian Dotremont was born in Tervuren. A Belgian painter and poet, he was a founding member of the Surrealist Revolutionary Group (1946). He became involved with the surrealist movement with the aim of revealing the multiple facets of art. He was also one of the founders of CoBrA together with the Danish artist Asger Jorn. It is Asger Jorn who introduces Dotremont to Galerie Birch, run by the charismatic art dealer and founder of the gallery, Børge Birch. Dotremont quickly becomes a personal friend of Birch's and many years later, long after the dissolution of the Cobra group, continued to maintain close contact with the Copenhagen gallery. As an artist who experimented with art throughout, he became known for his painted poems, called Peinture mots in French, which he called logogrammes. He defines them as something between images and words. Dotremont painted these "images of words and words of images" throughout his life. Dotremont caused the most important scandal to hit CoBrA; at the group's exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, he grabbed attention by delivering a lengthy political speech in favor of communism. Dutch viewers were instantly provoked by this harsh language. After this full-blown brawl, several of the CoBrA members withdrew from the movement. Clashes and disputes like this would inevitably cause the group to disband in 1951. Dotremont died of tuberculosis in Tervuren on August 20, 1979. Christian Dotremont appears in the following Danish public collections; Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, AROS, The Kastrupgaard collection, Randers Museum of Art, KUNSTEN in lborg, Horsens Museum of Art, Funen Museum of Art. In addition to these, Dotremont is part of many international public and private collections.
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CHRISTIAN DOTREMONT (Belgium, 1922 - Buizingen, 1979). "Zyzzling aardvark", 1972. India ink on paper. Signed, dated and titled in the lower left corner. Attached certificate signed by Samnuel Vanhoegaerden. Measurements: 98 x 62 cm; 113 x 76,6 cm (frame). This work in Chinese ink has a title difficult to translate, playful and surrealistic, as was in general the work of Christian Dotremont. We could translate it as "Sizzling Anteater" and it carries cryptic meanings. It also suggests a strange, magical and invented calligraphy. Dotremont was a visual poet, who was linked to the group CoBrA. Christian Dotremont was born in Tervuren. A Belgian painter and poet, he was a founding member of the Surrealist Revolutionary Group (1946). He became involved with the surrealist movement with the aim of revealing the multiple facets of art. He was also one of the founders of CoBrA together with the Danish artist Asger Jorn. It is Asger Jorn who introduces Dotremont to Galerie Birch, run by the charismatic art dealer and founder of the gallery, Børge Birch. Dotremont quickly becomes a personal friend of Birch's and many years later, long after the dissolution of the Cobra group, continued to maintain close contact with the Copenhagen gallery. As an artist who experimented with art throughout, he became known for his painted poems, called Peinture mots in French, which he called logogrammes. He defines them as something between images and words. Dotremont painted these "images of words and words of images" throughout his life. Dotremont caused the most important scandal to hit CoBrA; at the group's exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, he grabbed attention by delivering a lengthy political speech in favor of communism. Dutch viewers were instantly provoked by this harsh language. After this full-blown brawl, several of the CoBrA members withdrew from the movement. Clashes and disputes like this would inevitably cause the group to disband in 1951. Dotremont died of tuberculosis in Tervuren on August 20, 1979. Christian Dotremont appears in the following Danish public collections; Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, AROS, The Kastrupgaard collection, Randers Museum of Art, KUNSTEN in lborg, Horsens Museum of Art, Funen Museum of Art. In addition to these, Dotremont is part of many international public and private collections.
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