The Center Pompidou is enriched with a collection of “Art Brut” from the collector Bruno Decharme, a poorly recognized art form to which a permanent room will be dedicated for the first time, the National Museum announced on Monday June 14th. modern Art.
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"Art brut", an artistic concept created and defended by the plastic artist Jean Dubuffet, brings together self-taught artists, spiritualists, suffering from mental or marginal disorders.
921 works by 242 French and foreign artists (plastic and graphic arts, photography) will be presented in six-month shifts in this room on the fifth floor of Beaubourg, not far from works by the same Dubuffet.
It will open on June 23 under the name “Art brut: Donation Bruno Decharme”.
"Transversal" and "archaic" thoughts
"This permanence will avoid the dilution of the collection"
, welcomed the collector to AFP, who adds to give
"the most beautiful works of (his) collection"
.
Bruno Decharme says he started this collection in the 1970s, which includes 6,000 pieces by 420 different artists, from the mid-19th century to the present day.
It has ensured its promotion thanks to the association "abcd" ("art brut knowledge & dissemination").
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He explains that his studies of philosophy and the history of art led him to be passionate about
"these transversal, archaic, very particular thoughts, allowing to find tracks on the interrogation of the world, which one finds among the great mystics, outside the dominant cultures. Self-taught people who sometimes invent languages, new graphics ”
.
“Fifty years ago
, recalled the collector,
Dubuffet wanted to donate his collection to Parisian institutions but it was too iconoclastic, and the Center Pompidou has little Art Brut”
.
He got a dedicated research center to open within the Kandinsky library, under the direction of the researcher and founder of the “abcd” association Barbara Safarova.
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The gallery owner Christian Berst, who has devoted multiple exhibitions to Art Brut in fifteen years, salutes
“the audacity of the Center Pompidou”
which will welcome more than 50 artists that his gallery defends and
“thus opens a new chapter in the history of art ”
.
"While France is its cradle, Art Brut has come up against a neglect of museum institutions incapable of recognizing its artistic field"
, he adds, assuring that
"the
Moma
and the
Metropolitan
in New York are now very interested ”
and could quickly follow suit at the Center Pompidou.