Special envoy to Hauterives
How to tap into one's childhood dreams, knead them without fear as one stirs one's colored pencils and bring them back to life in the most tender way in a monument of raw art adored by the French?
There is this audacity, this intuition and this innocence in this “Dream of water” that Jean-Michel Othoniel brings back to life this summer in
Le Palais Idéal
du Facteur Cheval, madness of a single man classified as a historical monument under the ministry of André Malraux, in 1969. This incredible work of total art which inspired the theories of art brut by Jean Dubuffet, fed the imagination of surrealists, influenced many artists and intellectuals, seems to defy any intruder, so much its singularity imposes itself, sovereign.
And yet the blocks of glass in intense turquoise or flesh pink, the columns of pearls like strange mikados or Celtic cairns, the stained glass doors as if resurrected from a marvelous Middle Ages are naturally at home in caves,…
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