WARNING to the Art Students and young artists of Los Angeles: Go to see what Cobra is all about. This is mandatory. You have to know what Cobra, a European Avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951 was, what the artists did at that time.

Sometimes in the loneliness of your studio you think you found a great invention, or a new technique when actually what you just create has been done years before. It is just you never heard about it. So, every time you can be taught about a movement you never heard before, go to see what it is about.

On 8 November 1948 in the Café Notre-Dame, in Paris, artists Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Christian Dotremont, Asger Jorn, and Joseph Noiret have signed the manifesto “La cause était entendue” (“The Case Was Settled”) which doctrine was roughly to put forward the absolute freedom of color and form. Cobra movement was born.

COBRA at Blum & Poe

The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy is the second installment of a two-part exhibition which began in New York and now opens in Los Angeles, offering a broad and critical reassessment of Cobra READ MORE