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16/10/2014

art brut / Isabelle Roy

La Maison Rouge, Paris

art brut
abcd/Bruno Decharme collection

Bruno Decharme has assembled his collection over more than thirty years. It now comprises 3,500 works by 300 artists from numerous countries and from the mid-1800s to the present day. Some of these works were produced in mental institutions, others in the solitude of our towns and villages. Some are mediumistic works, others are folk objects which escape the conventions of tradition.

Bruno Decharme’s collection descends from the collecting and research undertaken by pioneering psychiatrists such as Hans Prinzhorn, or artists and writers such as André Breton. Such works were theorised in 1945 by Jean Dubuffet who invented the concept of art brut (“outsider art”). By placing these productions under the umbrella of art, Dubuffet initiated a radical paradigm shift that incites us to rethink our idea of art.

Through their visions, which we could qualify as delirious, each of them touches on a form of understanding that echoes universal and fundamental questions: “Who are we? Where are we from? Where are we heading?” Despite this, they have no artistic belonging. They are often isolated, ignore each other’s very existence and consequently do not form any kind of ideological or stylistic school.

Bruno Decharme’s practice is part of a wider project: that of a collector and filmmaker, but also the founder of Association abcd, a non-profit organisation which in 1999 opened his collection to the public. Presided by Barbara Safarova, Abcd (art brut connaissance & diffusion) is a research body which presents its findings through publications, seminars, exhibitions and films.

Tuesday, October 30th 2014
at 7:00 pm
Talking about art brut today

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Isabelle Roy
La Chambre des fantasmes

La Chambre des Fantasmes is the second leg of La Chambre, an ambitious, four-part project led by Isabelle Roy and her team. The first "chamber", La Matrice, was presented at the Singer-Polignac Museum, in the grounds of Sainte-Anne hospital in Paris, in January 2013 and will be shown again, at the same location, in February 2015. The third and fourth chambers will be La Chambre des Rêves and La Chambre de l’Intime.

The work of Isabelle Roy questions the individual as perceived by others and as they imagine themselves. This project reveals a personal world with exceptionally striking visual and formal qualities. It appears to the spectator as a vision, a dream, a passageway to an extraordinary otherworld of which the artist is the principal protagonist. In producing her work, Isabelle Roy calls on multimedia, sculpture and performance, as well as taxidermy, sewing and marquetry; a mammoth task already several years in the making.

The spectator enters this immaculate, mirror-encrusted world not physically but through peepholes at each end of a "secrets box."
Centre Hospitalier de Sainte-Anne and Centre d’Etude de l’Expression support this long-term project by providing space for its implementation. The Canton of Jura in Switzerland is the main financial sponsor of La Chambre.

Production of the project is managed by two non-profit organisations: La Fabrique des Univers in France and Ici et Là in Switzerland.

Press contact:
Claudine Colin Communication - Pénélope Ponchelet 28 rue de Sévigné - 75004 Paris phone + 33 (0)1 42726001 fax +33 (0)1 42 725023 penelope@claudinecolin.com

Preview Friday 17 October 6pm–9pm
Press preview 4pm–6pm

La Maison Rouge
Fondation Antoine de Galbert 10 bd de la Bastille - 75012 Paris
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