"Mogens Balle (1921-1988) is an artist
from Copenhagen. Mogens Balle began with a training in architecture and
finished his studies in painting, in a private institution. His time in
the French capital influenced his orientation towards Picasso's cubism
and inaugurated a style in the artistic vein. In 1947, during the
Spirale fair, he met Asger Jorn who invited him to join the Cobra group.
His various inspirations include Ejler Bille, Egill Jacobsen,
Carl-Henning Pedersen and Asger Jorn. Mogens Balle claims a breach from
surrealistic-figurative painting and Danish surrealism, the aim of the
Cobra movement. The entire inner notion is toned down. He shapes the
abstract-surrealistic movement, celebrating material spontaneity,
merging surrealistic automatism with abstract. Asger Jorn named their
entity as "Danish experiment". Mogens Balle illustrated texts of Noiret,
Harder and collaborated with Dotremont on word paintings. He signed
twelve issues of the Helhesten magazine, ancestor of the Cobra magazine
(mixing popular art, ethnology, cinema, photography and painting)."
(artsper.com)
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