Art Brut et bande dessinée - September 16, 2022 through February 26, 2023



"Art Brut" and "bande dessinée": two seemingly irreconcilable French expressions. On the one hand, works reflecting the solitude of a practitioner indifferent to the supposed tastes of the public; and on the other, a creative style often associated with the public's most popular heroes, those mass culture icons in a variety of media.

However, many Art Brut creators have seized upon the imagery and codes of the comic strip, freely adapting them to their own imaginative needs. The links between the two are fruitful and numerous, with common features conducive to interaction. While twentieth-century art has largely emancipated itself from narrative, in favour of the formal or the conceptual, countless works of Art Brut eloquently show that images retain all their capacity to produce narrative. On the other hand, comics and Art Brut also share the particularity of a mixed bag of signs and codes - texts, images, frames, onomatopoeia, speech bubbles and pictograms; both break down the established frontier between the visible and the readable.

As author, publisher and critic Jean-Christophe Menu has it, alongside the book and magazine output of the traditional distribution networks, there exists a "left field of comics". Brought together from the Collection de l’Art Brut various institutions and private collections, these works offer an exhilarating plunge into this "otherworld of comics".

With works by: Denis Boudouard (FR), Luigi Brunetti (IT), Wouter Coumou (NL), Henry Darger (US), Hein Dingemans (NL), Karel Frans Drenthe (NL), Johann Fischer (AT), Alfons Frenkl (DE), Michael Golz (DE), Tomoyuki Hirano (JP), Vojislav Jakić (RS), Frank Johnson (US), Daniel Johnston (US), Jim Kaliski (BE), Johann Korec (AT), Katsutoshi Kuroda (JP), Gérard Lattier (FR), Jean Leclercq (BE), Pascal Leyder (BE), Jean-Jacques Liabeuf (FR), Andreas Maus (DE), Peter Mikolajewski (DE), Yuichi Nishida (JP), Aldo Piromalli (IT), Luciana Rossi (IT) Jean-Marie Roussillon (FR), Gustav Sievers, Kanako Tayu (JP), Dominique Théate (BE), Alfred Trouvé (FR), Oskar Voll (DE) et Clemens Wild (CH).

Curator: Erwin Dejasse

L'exposition Art Brut et bande dessinée dans les médias
Le Grand Soir, RTS, 14 septembre 2022
Le Temps, Antoine Duplan, Petits Mickeys sur l'ubac de l'art, 26 septembre 2022
24Heures, Florence Millioud-Henriques, L'art Brut s'agite dans les cases, 27 septembre 2022
Diacritik, Christian Rosset, Choses lues, choses vues, 28 septembre 2022
Radio escapades, interview d'Erwin Dejasse (dès la minute 20'), 29 septembre 2022
Le Courrier, Aurélie Lebreau, La BD de tous les possibles, 14 octobre 2022
RTS, Vertigo, Erwin Dejasse: Art Brut et bande dessinée, 26 octobre 2022
Artension, Bruno Montpied, Art Brut et bande dessinée, novembre 2022
Artension, Bruno Montpied, Jean-Jacques Liabeuf, dessinateur vengeur, janvier 2023
Paper City, Chris Byrne, The 13 Most Extraordinary Art Exhibits to Catch Worldwide in 2023, 9 janvier 2023
Mediapart, Guillaume Lasserre, L’art de raconter par l’image. À propos d’Art Brut et de bande dessinée , 27 février 2023
Neuviemeart.org, Sylvain Lesage, Bande dessinée et art brut : explorer les hors champs de la BD


Practical information

Dates

September 16, 2022 - February 26, 2023

Evening opening

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Publication

Erwin Dejasse et Sarah Lombardi (dir.), Art Brut et bande dessinée, Genève / Lausanne, Atrabile / Collection de l’Art Brut, 2022.

Guided tours

Upon request for groups and classes: in French, German, English.

Press Kit

To be downloaded on the media page

Accessibility

The exhibition Art Brut et bande dessinée is accessible to people with reduced mobility.

Associated event(s)

  • Free guided tour of the "Art Brut et Bande Dessinée" exhibition - Saturday 17 September 2022, 11:30 am

    Booking via the online museum ticket shop

  • Free guided tour of the "Art Brut et Bande Dessinée" exhibition - Saturday 17 September 2022, 03:00 pm

    Booking via the online museum ticket shop

  • Free guided tour of the "Art Brut et Bande Dessinée" show - for teachers - Thursday 22 September 2022, 05:00 pm

    Booking via the online museum ticket shop

  • "Comics in Switzerland and their relationship to Art Brut" – Round Table organised by Pro Helvetia - Friday 25 November 2022, 05:00 pm

      

    - Event fully booked
  • - Saturday 26 November 2022, 02:30 pm

    Booking via the online museum ticket shop

  • Atelier tout public en continu (enfants et adultes) - Sunday 4 December 2022, 02:00 pm

     free, no booking

  • Young public workshop "Wow ! Boom ! Bam ! " - Saturday 10 December 2022, 02:00 pm

    Booking via the online museum ticket shop

  • Free guided tour of the "Art Brut et Bande Dessinée" exhibition - Saturday 10 December 2022, 02:30 pm

    Booking via the online museum ticket shop

  • Young public workshop "Wow ! Boom ! Bam ! " - Saturday 14 January 2023, 02:00 pm

        

    - online booking, within the limits of the seats available.
  • visite adaptée pour personnes en situation de handicap visuel de l’exposition ART BRUT ET BANDE DESSINEE - Wednesday 25 January 2023, 02:00 pm

      

  • visite adaptée pour personnes en situation de handicap visuel de l’exposition ART BRUT ET BANDE DESSINEE - Wednesday 25 January 2023, 02:00 pm
  • Young public workshop "Wow ! Boom ! Bam ! " - Saturday 25 February 2023, 02:00 pm

      

    - Event fully booked
  • Free guided tour of the "Art Brut et Bande Dessinée" exhibition - Saturday 25 February 2023, 02:30 pm

      

    - Event fully booked

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