Art Brut Around the World - June 6 through November 2, 2014
"One of our civilization’s most awkward facets is the total separation operated between the order of the rational and the order of the poetic, whereas in all the so-called primitive civilizations [...], these are two closely united orders," asserted the ethnologist Claude Lévi Strauss.
The seven creators whose works have been assembled for this exhibition have maintained the original alliance enabling the two orders, the rational and the poetic, to live together. Their creations—recently discovered or rediscovered in Bali, Brazil, Benin, India, the Far North Arctic, Sicily and Germany—testify to a cosmopolitan Art Brut immersed in poetry.
Some of them cultivate sensitive links with nature and the cosmos, bending an attentive ear, in the manner of a Zen archer. Others assert that the celestial or astral powers accompany them, that they are guided by a god, by spirits, by their ancestors or by voices.
These creators of Art Brut, hailing as they do from a number of countries and continents, show a particular receptiveness; they have the sort of exploratory nature that invites reason to lose its grip, freeing them from reality. Thus we have the garlands of faces that enchant Ni Tanjung's nights, the paintings that tattoo the walls of Giovanni Bosco's town, the worlds of respectively Gustav Mesmer and Ezekiel Messou teeming with flying and sewing machines. Elsewhere, deities and spirits spring out from the shadows under the touch of Kashinath Chawan and Anarqâq.
Featuring works by: Kashinath Chawan (India), Ezekiel Messou (Benin), Ni Tanjung (Bali), Antonio Roseno de Lima (Brazil), Giovanni Bosco (Sicily), Anarqâq (Far North Arctic), Gustav Mesmer (Germany).
The seven creators whose works have been assembled for this exhibition have maintained the original alliance enabling the two orders, the rational and the poetic, to live together. Their creations—recently discovered or rediscovered in Bali, Brazil, Benin, India, the Far North Arctic, Sicily and Germany—testify to a cosmopolitan Art Brut immersed in poetry.
Some of them cultivate sensitive links with nature and the cosmos, bending an attentive ear, in the manner of a Zen archer. Others assert that the celestial or astral powers accompany them, that they are guided by a god, by spirits, by their ancestors or by voices.
These creators of Art Brut, hailing as they do from a number of countries and continents, show a particular receptiveness; they have the sort of exploratory nature that invites reason to lose its grip, freeing them from reality. Thus we have the garlands of faces that enchant Ni Tanjung's nights, the paintings that tattoo the walls of Giovanni Bosco's town, the worlds of respectively Gustav Mesmer and Ezekiel Messou teeming with flying and sewing machines. Elsewhere, deities and spirits spring out from the shadows under the touch of Kashinath Chawan and Anarqâq.
Featuring works by: Kashinath Chawan (India), Ezekiel Messou (Benin), Ni Tanjung (Bali), Antonio Roseno de Lima (Brazil), Giovanni Bosco (Sicily), Anarqâq (Far North Arctic), Gustav Mesmer (Germany).
About Art Brut Around the World in the medias:
- Le Matin, 5 june 2014
- RTS - Espace2, "A vous de jouer", 2 june 2014 (from 44'04)
- RTS - la Première, "corpus" 5 june 2014
- RTS - la Première, "Vertigo" 6 june 2014
- 24H friday 6 june 2014
- Le Temps tuesday 10 june 2014
- La Liberté, tuesday 10 june 2014
- Le Courrier, tuesday 12 june 2014
- RTS - Espace2, "à vous de jouer", 5 july 2014 ( from 44'07)
- RTS - Espace2, "Les matinales", july 11, 2014
- RTS - la Première, "Le journal de 12:30", july 15, 2014
- The Jakarta Post, 7 august, 2014
- Basler Zeitung, august 8, 2014
- France Inter, "Le Grand Bain", 12 august, 2014
- RTS - Espace2, "Babylone", 25 august, 2014
- La Repubblica, 14 august, 2014
- France Culture, "La Grande Table d'été", 26 august, 2014
- Libération, 27 august 2014
- Review "L'Alpe" N° 66, "L'Art Brut et la montagne"
- Nuance, HEMU review, Lausanne
- Artension N° 127, article by Françoise Monnin "L'éblouie de Bali"
- La Télé, "Comme il nous plaira", october 14, 2014
Practical information
Dates
June 6 - november 2, 2014
Opening reception
Thursday 5 june 2014, 6pm
Direction
Sarah Lombardi
Exhibition curator
Lucienne Peiry, director of Research and International Relations
Publication
L’Art Brut dans le monde, directed by Lucienne Peiry, with a Preface by Sarah Lombardi, Lausanne/ Gollion, Collection de l’Art Brut/ Infolio, 2014, 136 pagesAccessibility
The exhibition is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.Free guided tours
Saturday 14 June 11amSaturday 6 September 2pm
Saturday 4 October 2pm
Online booking, within the limits of the seats available.
The public tours of September 6 and October 4 will take place at the same time as the young people's workshops, so that parents will be free to visit the exhibition while their children create.
Young public workshop (ages 6-12)
Fee: 10.- per child
Saturday 6 September 2pmWednesday 17 September 2pm
Saturday 4 October 2pm
Online booking, within the limits of the seats available.
Exhibition activities album
For youngsters ages 6 to 10Offered free of charge, together with a box of colored pencils.
Two concerts evenings
"A l'aventure musicale de l'Art Brut dans le monde"
Organized jointly with the Haute école de musique (University of Music) de Lausanne (HEMU).30 October at 7pm and 9pm
31 October at 7pm and 9pm
Limited seating, Online booking
Fee: 15.- (reduced price 10.-)
Guided tours
Upon request for groups and classes: in French, German, English and Italian. Free guided tours for teachers
Thursday 11 september 5pmOnline booking, within the limits of the seats available.
Accessibility
The exhibition Art Brut Around the World is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.