Art brut, the terribly fashionable word, unleashes passions.
If there is one point in common between all the spokespersons of this extraordinary art, even between the enemies that egos and competition have forged, it is passion.
It is due to the very material of this continent which remained unknown for a long time and whose discovery aroused wonder and a boom in the market.
Art brut also sounds like a diamond in the rough.
For his first participation in the Arco, which has just been held in Madrid from February 22 to 26, the Parisian gallery owner Christian Berst has bet on the clash of "
works by the Cuban Misleidys Castillo Pedroso and the Brazilian Marilena Pelosi, two artists Latin Americans whose history is rooted in otherness, and whose productions have long been kept secret"
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For Misleidys Castillo Pedroso, he says,
“the body is magnified, omnipotent, hieratic and gender neutral;
for Marilena Pelosi, it is ritualized, jubilant and, paradoxically, expiatory”
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