Sammlung Art Brut

Guy Brunet filmmaker - Paravision studios

05.06.2015 - 04.10.2015

Guy Brunet (b. 1945) was 16 when he began filling school notebooks with screenplays (over 350 in all). Gradually, he took up drawing as well, at first using colored pencils to create his storyboards. Later he would go on to draw and paint his own movie posters on the back of those he inherited from his father (who had run a small movie house). He began by resorting to paint normally used in con... weiter

Pascal Tassini

13.02.2015 - 10.05.2015

Pascal Tassini (1955) resorts to a variety of mediums—drawing, writing, fabric assemblages, ceramics and installations—to invent a highly personal world and mythology all of his own. His creativity can be traced back to the Créahm workshop in Liège (Belgium): there he set up a cabin/den which, to this day, he continues to reconstruct. In no way does this creator'... weiter

Eric Derkenne

13.02.2015 - 10.05.2015

Eric Derkenne's work brings to mind a scrivener monk or a shaman: on the one hand, the strictness attached to the slow task of weaving and, on the other, the sacred dimension of a highly precise and unchanging ritual Born in Stavelot (Belgium) in 1960, from 1995 to 2011 Éric Derkenne attended the artistic workspace "S" Grand Atelier in Vielsalm, in the heart of the Belgia... weiter

André Robillard

28.11.2014 - 19.04.2015

It was in 1964 that André Robillard assembled his first rifle, using scotch tape and wire to hold together objects salvaged from rubbish heaps. Thanks to the psychiatrist Paul Renard, Jean Dubuffet discovered and acquired that piece, adding it to his collection of Art Brut objects. This marked the start of a prolific adventure: for fifty years, André Robillard has been creating fi... weiter

Art Brut Around the World

06.06.2014 - 02.11.2014

Assembling works by several creators from different parts of the world, this exhibition presents visitors with a worldwide selection of the latest Art Brut productions, including wild flying machines by Gustav Mesmer of Germany, colorful cutout figures by Ni Tanjung of Bali, drawings of animals and spirits by the Inuit Anarqaq, and more. The highly unusual approaches to creation that these work... weiter

Démons et merveilles: Josep Baqué

06.07.2014 - 26.10.2014

This exhibition highlights a little known draftsman who, officially working as a city guard in his native city of Barcelona , devoted himself to his bestiary in secret. Born on December 12, 1895, Baqué balked at school and turned into an eccentric and rebellious person. He earned a pittance with odd jobs at the port or market, and left his family at the tender age of 17 to travel through... weiter

Vehicles

08.11.2013 - 27.04.2014

Whether built to travel in the sky, across the sea or on the ground, vehicles have always continued to fascinate man and, especially, Art Brut creators. Through their various depictions of vehicles, such creators have perhaps sought to assert themselves, or else to regain a certain control over their existence in the wake of certain hard knocks of life. The very act of drawing be it cars, boa... weiter

Charles Steffen

23.05.2013 - 29.09.2013

The oeuvre of Charles Steffen is obsessed with never-ending variations on the theme of nudes and the mother figure. Through that theme, however, Steffen confronts us with changes we ourselves experience. He calls into being the transformations he faced during his own lifetime — notably illness, solitude and weaknesses for alcohol and tobacco. He holds a mirror up to us, exposing us to our... weiter

Welcome to my world! Daniel Johnston

15.03.2013 - 30.06.2013

Welcome To My World ! Daniel Johnston is indeed a welcome opportunity to present the oeuvre of Daniel Johnston, a cult figure on the American alternative scene. Conceived in close collaboration with the creator himself, his inner circle, the itinerant Arts Factory (Paris) gallery the exhibition was first mounted at the Lieu Unique (national center for contemporary arts and music) in Nantes, in ... weiter

James Edward Deeds

15.03.2013 - 30.06.2013

The Collection de l’Art Brut proudly presents the first European show devoted to drawings by James Edward Deeds Jr. (1908-1987). A native American, at the age of 28 this creator was committed to what was named at the time the State Lunatic Asylum No. 3, located in Nevada (Missouri). There he produced two-hundred eighty-three individually numbered drawings, which he went on to sew togeth... weiter

Morton Bartlett

23.11.2012 - 14.04.2013

The Collection de l’Art Brut proudly presents, jointly with the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Contemporary Art Museum), Berlin, a first European solo show devoted to the American Art Brut creator Morton Bartlett (1909-1992). Initially featured in Berlin, the show now travels to Lausanne. In 1996, the New York gallery owner Marion Harris donated forty-two Morton Ba... weiter

Aloïse. Le ricochet solaire

02.06.2012 - 28.10.2012

L’été 2012 connaît le plus grand événement jamais organisé autour de l’oeuvre d’Aloïse (1886- 1964) dont Jean Dubuffet, à l’origine du concept d’Art Brut, en a fait l’une des figures majeures. La Collection de l’Art Brut et le Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne présentent les exposit... weiter

Josef Hofer und der Spiegel

09.03.2012 - 13.05.2012

Die Collection de l’Art Brut präsentiert eine Ausstellung mit fünfzig Zeichnungen von Josef Hofer, die der männlichen Figur und der Sexualität gewidmet sind. Der Künstler, der 1945 geboren wurde und in Österreich lebt, gilt als eine der wichtigsten Entdeckungen der letzten zehn Jahre. Dank Schenkungen der Kunsthistorikerin Elisabeth Telsnig, die das Künstle... weiter