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The Cobra lived 1001 nights. This statement comes from Dotremont, and
for 1001 days he was the very active ambassador, writer and organiser
of Cobra. All his life, Dotremont was in mutual dependence on art. He
for his part got the proper forumto display his skills, and in turn he
contributed with his dynamic way of being, with talents for writing and
organizing, with feelings for the art, and with his growing experiences
as editor. From childhood he was surrounded by litterature and art; his
father edited and published periodicals about art, and Dotremont very
early started to do the same.
As a poet Dotremont became involved with Belgian surrealists in 1940,
and soon he became involved with a couple of surrealistic groups in France
as well. From 1943 he edited and wrote a long list of magazines and papers
about art in both countries. In 1947 he founded the french-belgian group
le surréalisme révolutionnaire, and in 1948 he is one of
six to found Cobra in Paris.
As organizer Dotremont gave Cobra all of his heart, and as artist he
contributed with dessin-mots - pictures of words and words as pictures
inspired by the calligraphy of the East. Post-Cobra Dotremont stayed in
contact with many of the artists involved in the group, with whom he created
collective dessin-mots.
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