Literature: Guy Atkins: “Asger Jorn. The crucial years: 1954–1964”, London, 1977, no. 1025, ill. full-page fig. 143. Literature: “Asger Jorn Billedfortegnelse” (Studio Book), 1975, no. 220. Exhibited: “The exploration of form”. Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1958, cat. no. 9. Exhibited: Gruenebaum Gallery Ltd, New York (cat. no. J 022). Exhibited: Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat. no. 14). Lent to the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, for a number of years (loan # 159.82).

“Everything is in constant movement from one state of being to another, from good to evil and back again ... Only in the transformation, the eternal movement, lies the truth” (Quote by Asger Jorn, 1950, in the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art’s “Asger Jorn”, 2002, p. 154.)

During the late 1950s, a number of significant events occur in Asger Jorn’s life. Some of the events are of a personal nature while others relate to his artistic career. A few of the highlights include the meeting with Guy Debord in 1957 – with whom Jorn founded the political and radical art movement “Situationist International” – and the same year Jorn meets the German gallerist Otto van de Loo in Paris by a coincidence. Jorn's artwork gradually gains a larger international audience, and in 1958 he attends the World’s Fair in Brussels with the work “Lettre á mon fils” (Letter to My Son), which solidifies his international breakthrough.

For Jorn personally, the future looks less bright. The marriage with Matie is in deep turmoil, and Jorn is once again facing a failed relationship. The experience, however, enrichens Jorn, and he is able to turn the sorrow he is feeling into a strong creative energy that manifests itself in a number of works characterized by great and tragic beauty.

”I create, I think and I speak. But all thought does not exit from the mouth: man’s entire body thinks, and the entire body speaks, too. We speak with gestures as well as with the tongue, and, like the dancer and the musician, the painter speaks with gestures that we call pictorial creation. In our language, the artist can express himself thus: ”I don’t seek, I don’t find, I create.” (Quote by Asger Jorn from the opening speech to the Congress of Free Artists in Alba, 2–8 September, 1956).