Post-war Cobra group exhibit at IMMA
The first Irish exhibition of the radical post-war Cobra group of artists and poets opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 3 July.
The show comprises of over 110 works by 19 artists, including a major collection of paintings and drawings by each of the key figures: Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Constant, Asger Jorn and Carl-Henning Pedersen.
The main focus of the show is on the ground-breaking Cobra exhibitions held in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam between 1948 and 1951.
The name Cobra was coined in 1948 by the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont from the three cities where the main participants lived: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.
On Thursday 3 July at 11.30am Roger Malbert and Peter Shield will discuss the Cobra movement in the Lecture Room at IMMA.
