Two exhibitions
dal 22/6/2005 al 9/10/2005
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22/6/2005
Two exhibitions
La Maison Rouge, Paris
Arnulf Rainer and his collection of art brut. The ratist has centred his work around existing images: reproductions, photos, his own drawings, and works by other artists including the greatest names in art history. This process of appropriation and accumulation overflows into the collection of works by the mentally ill, mediums and outsiders. Berlinde de Bruyckere presents a group of 7 sculptures and 3 series of watercolours, all post 2000. Her work is powerfully evocative: hybrid forms, human and animal, emerge from a fusion and contortion of bodies.
Arnulf Rainer and his collection of art brut
curated by Franz Kaiser
Arnulf Rainer* and his collection of art brut continues the series of exhibitions that la maison rouge is devoting to private collections. After L’intime, behind closed doors and its extracts from some fifteen private collections, and Central Station drawn from the collection of Hamburg's Harald Falckenberg, la maison rouge now invites the public to discover an artist's collection.
A prominent figure on the Austrian and international art scene, since the 1950s Arnulf Rainer has centred his work around existing images: reproductions, photos, his own drawings, and works by other artists including the greatest names in art history.
A distinctive working method, this process of appropriation and accumulation overflows into the
collection of works by the mentally ill, mediums and outsiders that Arnulf Rainer began in 1963. This collection of art brut – which in 1972 Roger Cardinal translated as "outsider art" – now extends to over 2,000 works, mostly on paper.
This collection stands out in that it was conceived at a time when art brut interested only a handful of psychiatric doctors – introduced to art brut through pioneering studies by Doctors Walter Morgenthaler and Hans Prinzhorn in the 1920s - or enlightened enthusiasts such as André Breton, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, and most importantly Jean Dubuffet who devised the theory of art brut and was one of its first collectors. Arnulf Rainer is a precursor, preceding by several decades the mounting interest among collectors and the public for art brut. The fascination of this collection lies also in the captivating personality of its creator, a great twentieth–century artist.
Many of the works in Arnulf Rainer's collection were discovered in Eastern Europe and certain artists are still unknown to experts. Others have gained prominence (including Louis Soutter, Johann Hauser and Wolfgang Hueber) and their works are part of the renowned Lausanne and Villeneuve d’Ascq collections, and that of Bruno Decharme in Paris. Arnulf Rainer's collection thus enhances and adds to our knowledge of art brut.
The exhibition sets out to reveal the invisible connections between Rainer's own work and the works in his collection, and to raise a question: how can a contemporary artist be drawn to expressions that are devoid of self-censorship and which lie beyond the boundaries of art history, and why collect them?
This exhibition of over 300 pieces, most of which have never before seen outside the artist’s studio, presents Rainer's own work on the representation of madness alongside works from his collection of art brut.
*born in 1929 in Baden (Austria), lives and works in Vienna, Enzenkirchen and Vornbach-sur-Inn.
about Franz-W. Kaiser, curator of the exhibition
After studying art history and philosophy at Kassel University (Germany), he helped staged numerous
exhibitions in Europe, including Documenta 7 (Kassel, 1982), the inaugural exhibition at the Castello di Rivoli (Turin, 1984), and the tenth Paris Biennial (La Grande Halle de la Villette, 1985). In 1985 he was appointed conservator at the New Villeurbanne Museum. Between 1986 and 1989 he programmed exhibitions at Le Magasin, National Centre for Contemporary Art in Grenoble, including "Arnulf Rainer, metaphors of death" (1987). He is director of exhibitions at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague since 1989.
a travelling exhibition
This exhibition initiated by la maison rouge will travel to the Gemeente Museum in The Hague
(Netherlands) in summer 2006, then in autumn to the Dhondt Daenens Museum in Deurle (Belgium) and
to the Dr Guislain Museum in Ghent (Belgium).
catalogue
la maison rouge produces a catalogue for each of the collections it shows. This series, privées, is published in association with Fage edition. Arnulf Rainer and his collection of art brut is the third in the series. 160 illustrated pages in French and English with texts by Roger Cardinal, Franz Kaiser and Bernard Vouilloux, and an interview with Arnulf Rainer.€25.
public preview Wednesday June 22nd 2005 from 6pm to 9 p.m., in the artist's presence
press preview Wednesday June 22nd 2005 from 4pm to 6 p.m., in the artist's presence
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Berlinde de Bruyckere, Eén (Un)
la maison rouge continues its cycle of solo exhibitions and invites the Flemish artist Berlinde de
Bruyckere to show, for the first time in France, a group of recent sculptures and paintings.
After first showing at the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg (Netherlands), Eén travels to la maison rouge with a group of seven sculptures and three series of watercolours, all post 2000.
Berlinde de Bruyckere's work is powerfully evocative.
Whether the human body or that of a horse, her animal of choice, her work is consistently and profoundly expressive.
Female forms stand buried under blankets or beneath a trailing horsehair mane, horses hang from trees, vegetation is wrapped in strips of wool: Berlinde de Bruyckere's sculptures address questions about the body, seen as the point where suffering and desire meet.
These hybrid forms, human and animal, emerge from a fusion and contortion of bodies.
Berlinde de Bruyckere mixes wax with pigments to recreate a skin-like texture, fashions new bodies from horse hides, and sews old toys to threadbare blankets. Tables, trestles and used furniture serve as pedestals for her sculptures: to see such household objects combined with these bodies heightens the spectator's discomfort.
The artist has only recently, since 2004, turned to the male body through the model Jelle Luipaard, a figure seemingly straight out of medieval iconography. Two new sculptures will be shown at this exhibition. Both of them suggest crucifixion as depicted in Flemish Gothic scenes of Passion.
Berlinde de Bruyckere's sculptures are fascinating in their dualism; death and suffering are clearly present in each of her works, yet always combined with the softness of the materials, a possible rebirth, and a fusion of beings.
biography
Berlinde de Bruyckere was born in 1964 in Ghent where she lives and works. She has been exhibiting her work since the early 1990s. Her recent exhibitions at the MuHKA in Antwerp in 2001, the Venice Biennial in 2003, and at the Saatchi Gallery in London where she has her own room, have secured her international acclaim. She is now an important figure on the Flemish art scene. Harald Szeemann chose her to take part in his exhibition "Visionary Belgium" at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (until May 2005).
solo exhibitions (selection)
2005 Eén, De Pont Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tilburg (Netherlands)
2004 Hauser & Wirth, Zürich (Switzerland)
2003 Galleria Continua, San Gimignano (Italy)
2002 Galerie CD, Tielt (Belgium), Caermesklooster – Provinciaal Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Ghent (Belgium)
2001 en alles is aanéén-genaaid, MuHKA, Antwerp (Belgium), Aanéén-gegroeid, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2000 POTEN, poten zulen bomen worden, Park ter Beuken, Lokeren (Belgium); In Flanders Fields, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres (Belgium); Aanéén-genaaid, De Pont Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tilburg (Netherlands)
group exhibitions (selection)
2006 Ademen en versitikken, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (Belgium)
2005 La Belgique visionnaire, Bozar, Brussels (Belgium); Theorema, une collection privée en Italie, Lambert Collection, Avignon (France); Springtime, ICA, Philadelphia (United States), Neue Akzente Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlanden, Kunst Palace, Düsseldorf (Germany), La Dona Arbre, Fondazione Girona (Spain)
2004 Non Toccare Donna-Bianca – Arte Contemporanea fra diversità e liberazione, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (Italy), Animals, Haunch of Venison, London (United Kingdom)
2003 50th Venice Biennial, Italian Pavilion, Venice (Italy), Maria Magdalena, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent (Belgium), Europe Exists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Catalogue
A catalogue, published by Gli Ori, Prato (Italy), accompanies the Eén exhibition at the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art (22.01.2005 – 29.05.2005) and at la maison rouge. Texts by Barbara Baert and Harald Szeemann. French, 138 pages, €50.
preview Wednesday June 22nd, 2005 from 6pm to 9pm
press preview Wednesday June 22nd, 2005 from 4pm to 6pm in the artist's presence
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Press relations
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La Maison Rouge
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opening times
la maison rouge is open Wednesday to Sunday from 11am to 7pm, late nights Thursday until 9pm.
full price: €6.50; concessions: €4.50.