One was an underground miner, the other plumber-zinc worker, the third coffee maker. All three were from Pas-de-Calais. Nothing indicated that one day they would be artists. But suddenly, a heavenly voice spoke to them. To each one, at a particular time, always in intimacy, she said to them: "You will be a painter" . And they have become. Body and soul, entirely dedicated to their vision, capable of healing their neighbor by the laying on of hands while knowing that their infinitely meticulous paintings would be even greater miracles.
The Maillol Museum presents Augustin Lesage (1876-1954), Victor Simon (1903-1976) and Fleury-Joseph Crépin (1875-1948). Regulars at the Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Art and Art Brut in Villeneuve-d'Ascq (LaM) know these three sacred loustics, spiritualist visual artists, humble performers from beyond, obsessed with very precisely render the most fantastic divine worlds on a flat surface.
Savine Faupin and Christophe Boulanger,
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