Christian Dotremont

• Christian Dotremont died in 1979. Born in Belgium in 1922, he was, along with Asger Jorn and Karel Appel, one of the founders of the artists’ group COBRA. He became famous for inventing logograms, texts drawn in an intimate and spontaneous interaction between verbal imagination and graphic upheaval of the alphabet. Pierre Alechinsky, who was his friend and a member of COBRA, has produced a major new portrait of this indefinable, productive and totally original artist.