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Dubuffet & l'art brut at Lille Métropole |
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| Saturday, 29 October 2005 16:23 |
 VILLENEUVE D'ASCQ, FRANCE.-Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole presents Dubuffet & l'art brut. For the very first time in France on such a large scale, the Dubuffet and Art Brut exhibition will bring together works by Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut. Dubuffet enjoyed being provocative, did not like "cultural art" and spent his life looking for works in areas outside the mainstream art world. His insatiable curiosity led him to taking an interest in highly inventive works by people with no formal training who were often neglected by society. In 1945, he gathered works by the mentally ill, self-trained artists and mediums under the title "Art Brut", amassing a significant collection, which he donated to the town of Lausanne in 1971. By comparing works by Dubuffet – from the Metro (1943) to Mires (1983) series, with special emphasis on the Hourloupe cycle (1962-1974) – with those of about forty artists from amongst the most important in Art Brut, such as Aloïse Corbaz, Adolf Wölfli, Augustin Lesage, Madge Gill, Emile Ratier, Auguste Forestier, Emile Josome Hodinos, Willem Van Genk, and many more, the exhibition will call into question Dubuffet’s possible influences, the role of Art Brut in his intellectual and artistic approach, and the circumstances under which he created the works displayed.
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