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14/10/2005

Dubuffet & l'art brut

Metropolitan Museum, Lille

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.
Dubuffet’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and other works come from the National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Georges Pompidou, the Dubuffet Foundation and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. The Art Brut works are from the L’Aracine donation, which is housed at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Brut Collection and the Eternod-Mermod Collection in Lausanne, the ABCD Collection in Paris, the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg, the Kunstmuseum in Bern, the Museum of Docteur Guislain in Ghent, the Fabuloserie in Dicy, and from various private collections.

This exhibition has a special resonance at the Lille Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art which will close for expansion in 2006, in particular so as to be able to put the Art Brut works in the L'Aracine donation on permanent display.

Image: Anonyme (les Barbus Müller), without title, n. d., pierre Donation L'Aracine, Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole,

Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole
1 allée du Musée 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
Opening hours : Open every day from 10.00 am to 6.00 pm, except on Tuesday. Closed on 25th December and 1st January. Entry fees : Full: € 6.50 - Reduced: € 3.70 - 12 / 25 years: € 1.50 - Under 12: free. Free entry on the first Sunday of each month from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm.
Museum accessible to those of reduced mobility.
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