Inner Worlds Outside
dal 25/7/2006 al 14/10/2006
Segnalato da
25/7/2006
Inner Worlds Outside
Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
Works by established mainstream artists and Outsider artists - individuals producing from the "fringes of society". The exhibition aims to question the problematic distinction between Insider and Outsider Art by exploring the parallels between them as well as the impact of some Outsider artists on major figures of twentieth century art. The exhibition comprises some 140 works.
Inner Worlds Outside brings together works by established mainstream artists and Outsider artists - individuals producing from the “fringes of society". The exhibition aims to question the problematic distinction between Insider and Outsider Art by exploring the parallels between them as well as the impact of some Outsider artists on major figures of twentieth century art. The exhibition comprises some 140 works by Insiders such as James Ensor, Philip Guston, Henri Rousseau and Outsiders such as Henry Darger, Madge Gill and Adolf Wolfli. It draws on selected work from the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection, which is on loan to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, as well as from works from public and private collections in Europe, Brazil and the US.
Inner Worlds Outside is co-curated by Jon Thompson, artist and critic, and Monika Kinley, curator and collector. It is a touring exhibition organised by IMMA, the Fundacio'n "la Caixa", Madrid (27 January - 2 April 2006) and the Whitechapel, London (28 April - 25 July 2006).
A catalogue, with essays by Jon Thompson, A'ngel Gonza'lez Garci'a, critic, James Elkins, art historian, and Roger Cardinal, author and authority on Outsider Art, accompanies the exhibition.
The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection on loan to the Irish Museum of Modern Art consists of over 600 works. Outsider art was first recognised and collected by the French artist Jean Dubuffet whose Collection de l'Art Brut can be seen in Lausanne, Switzerland. Victor Musgrave, writer, filmmaker and director of the former Gallery One in London, was a member of Dubuffet's Compagnie de L'art Brut and organised the now legendary Outsiders exhibition held in 1979 at the Hayward Gallery, London. Announcing the Hayward exhibition, Musgrave proclaimed,
"Here is an art without precedent. It offers an orphic journey to the depths of the human psyche, filled with amazing incident, over spilling with feeling and emotion yet always disciplined by superlative technical resources"
Alexander Georgiou Perifimou, Untitled The success of the exhibition encouraged Musgrave to establish the Outsider Archive and begin to build a collection that could be accessible to the public. Since Victor Musgrave's untimely death in 1984, his companion, Monika Kinley, has continued to add to the collection and expand our knowledge and understanding of Outsider art and the extraordinary individuals who create it.
The Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection includes such well known names as Aloise, Carlo, Henry Darger, Madge Gill, Hauser, J.B. Murry, Sekulic, Oswald Tschirtner, Van Genk, Scottie Wilson, Wolfli, Zemankova and numerous known and lesser-known artists most of whom are also represented in the Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland. Outsider artists do not belong to movements or schools and are rarely influenced by Art History. From positions outside the artistic mainstream, they create work that exists beyond the limits of convention. As Monika Kinley has described, Pearl Alcock, Tomb of the Past, 1986are '… artists who are untrained and work for and by, themselves. They know little of cultural history or the tradition of Fine Art'. From artists who suffer from psychiatric conditions, to those driven by an inner spirit, this disparate collection of international artists share a compulsion to create powerful, unmediated expressions of the self.
In 1998, the Irish Museum of Modern Art held Art Unsolved, the first major exhibition of Outsider Art. This exhibition was followed by Art Without Precedent (2000) and The Tail that Wags the Dog (2003).
Dusan Kusmic, Untitled (small boots) The extended loan of the Musgrave Kinley Outsider Art Collection to the Irish Museum of Modern Art empowers IMMA's vision of a new way of looking and thinking about art that is open and inclusive. Its presence endorses the museum's founding principle that it must engage in a renegotiation of standing definitions of artist and non-artist and the role of the contemporary art museum. IMMA is committed to showing Outsider works alongside more mainstream artwork in all Collection displays as well as through our access, education and National Programme exhibitions.
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