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Henry Darger - © christian berst — art brut
Date 1892 — 1973
Country United States

Henry Darger is 4 years old when his mother dies giving birth to his little sister whom he will never see. At 7, his father sends him to a home where violence and bullying reign, then to an asylum for retarded children from which he escapes. In the early 1920s, he joined a Chicago hospital as a janitor and stayed there until his retirement in 1963. At the age of 19, he began writing a saga of more than fifteen thousand pages entitled Royaumes de l’Irréel (Kingdoms of the Unreal), which describes the struggle of the Vivian sisters, helped by Captain Henry Darger, against the evil adults, the Glandeliniens. He illustrates this epic with huge plates drawn on both sides, decorated with illustrations cut out of the newspapers, depicting little girls (some with the sex of a little boy). Its production was discovered by Nathan Lerner, its owner, after Darger entered a nursing home.

Exhibitions
over 50 brut artists in l’esprit singulier
Curator: Martine Lusardy, halle saint-pierre. From March 12 to August 14, 2024.
L’énigme autodidacte,
curator : Charlotte Laubard, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole. From October 8, 2021 to April 3, 2022.
Photo Brut
Coll. Bruno Decharme & cie, American Folk Art Museum, New York. From January 24 to June 6, 2021.
Photo Brut
coll. Bruno Decharme & cie, Rencontre d'Arles. From July 1 to September 22, 2019.
Histories of violence
a dialogue between the works of the treger saint silvestre collection, Núcleo de arte da oliva, Portugal. From April 14, 2018 to February 28, 2019.
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Vestiges & Verse
Notes from the Newfangled Epic, American Folk Art Museum, New York. From January 21, 2018 to December 27, 2017.
Les Refuges du récit
Écritures, langues et mondes imaginaires à partir de l’art brut, LaM, Villeneuve d'Ascq. From October 19, 2017 to March 28, 2018.
The Museum Of Everything
Kunsthal, Rotterdam. From March 5 to May 22, 2016.
Henry Darger
1892-1973, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris . From May 29 to October 11, 2015.
Art brut
ABCD Collection / Bruno Decharme, la Maison rouge, Paris. From October 17, 2014 to January 18, 2015.
Art brut: breaking the boundaries
curator Christian Berst, Oliva Creative Factory, Sao Joao da Madeira, Portugal. From June 1 to September 11, 2014.
Raw Vision
25 years of art brut, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris . From September 18, 2013 to August 22, 2014.
Arte Bruta Terra Incognita
by Christian Berst, Collection Treger-Saint Silvestre, Lisbonne. From April 20 to September 13, 2012.
glossolalia: languages of drawing
MoMA, New York. From March 26, 2008 to July 7, 2007.
Inner Worlds Outside
Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid ; Whitechapel gallery, London ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. From January 18 to December 30, 2006.
Exhibition view of *Photo Brut, Bruno Decharme & compagnie collection*, Mécanique Générale, Arles, 2019 - © © Bruno Decharme & compagnie collection, christian berst — art brut
Exhibition view of *Histórias de Violência: Um diálogo entre obras da Coleção Treger/Saint Silvestre*, Oliva Creative Factory, São João da Madeira, Portugal, 2018. - © Oliva Creative Factory, christian berst — art brut
Exhibition view of *Photo Brut, Bruno Decharme & compagnie collection*, Mécanique Générale, Arles, 2019 - © © Bruno Decharme & compagnie collection, christian berst — art brut
Press review
A la Villa Médicis, en Italie, l’art brut s’expose en majesté
Harry Bellet, Le Monde. April 30, 2024.
« Ces artistes sont des visionnaires » : une des plus grandes collections d’art brut au monde exposée à Rome
Eric Tariant, Connaissance Des Arts. April 24, 2024.
Quand des artistes s’emparent de l’œuvre fascinante d’Henry Darger
Camille Bois-Martin, Numéro. September 19, 2023.
Que devient l’art brut?
Françoise Monnin, Artension. September 10, 2023.
warm institutional embrance of self-taught artists
Lisa Slominski, Hyperallergic. September 10, 2023.
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confessioni di un collezionista. Intervista a antoine de galbert
Roberta Trapani, Rivista Osservatorio Outsidersart N°24. September 23, 2022.
Un Monde d’art Brut - Par Oriol Malet & Christian Berst - Delcourt/Encrages
DT, ActuBD. August 13, 2022.
Sentir a Arte Bruta - Em Viena, a valsa foi outra com a Coleçção Treger/Saint Silvestre
Joaquim Pinto Da Silva, As Artes Entre As Letras. April 27, 2022.
Bulles d’art - Un monde d’art brut
Philippe Ducat, Artpress. April 20, 2022.
Un monde d’art brut
Marie Zawisza, Le Journal Des Arts. March 28, 2022.
L’art brut, un marché en forte croissance
Myriam Boutoulle, Investir. March 5, 2022.
Accrochages autour de l’œuvre d’Henry Darger
Roxana Azimi, M Le Magazine Du Monde. February 25, 2022.
Oriol Malet: “Me ilusionan los encargos que no sé si sabré hacer”
Francesca Bombi-Vilaseca Barcelona, La Vanguardia. January 4, 2022.
Diez cómics singulares para regalar esta Navidad
Asier Mensuro, ABC Cultura. December 29, 2021.
Un monde d’art brut
J. Milette, BDGest. December 20, 2021.
La hotte est pleine !
Léa Cances, Art Hebdo Médias. December 20, 2021.
Saint-Étienne : les artistes autodidactes s’exposent au musée d’Art moderne et contemporain
Guy Boyer, Connaissance Des Arts. December 12, 2021.
‘Art brut’, entre la genialidad y la locura
Jordi Canyissà Barcelona, La Vanguardia. December 8, 2021.
Un mundo de art brut. Entrevista a Oriol Malet, norma editorial
Mery Cuesta, Norma Editorial. November 22, 2021.
Un monde d’Art Brut, une initiation en BD
Laetitia Larralde, Toute La Culture. November 8, 2021.
« Un monde d’art brut » : la fureur de créer
Jonathan Fanara, Le Mag Du Ciné. October 27, 2021.
BD du mois – Se laisser tenter par l’aventure
Charlène Ponzo, Maze. October 27, 2021.
Un vieux monsieur dérangé
Géant Vert, Rock & Folk. October 22, 2021.
un monde d’art brut
Franck Guigue, Planete BD. October 19, 2021.
Berst = Brut
Frédéric Bosser, Les Arts Dessinés. October 12, 2021.
L’art brut adapté en bande dessinée
Natacha Wolinski, The Art Newspaper. October 8, 2021.
Au Centre Pompidou, l’art brut trouve sa place dans les collections du musée
Clémentine Mercier, Libération. June 11, 2021.
La collection de Bruno Decharme, un trésor d’art brut
Philippe Dagen, Le Monde. June 10, 2021.
L’art brut prend ses quartiers à Beaubourg
Roxana Azimi, Le Monde. June 10, 2021.
Bernard Blistène: «Il y a une belle matière grise auCentre Pompidou»
Valérie Duponchelle, Le Figaro. June 10, 2021.
Fantastic Fixation in ‘Photo Brut’
J. Hoberman, The New York Review. April 25, 2021.
OUTSIDER, l’incroyable histoire d’Henry Darger - EP2 : L’Art Brut, c’est quoi ? (Podcast)
Philippe Cohen Solal, Christian Berst, Youtube. February 17, 2021.
In a disturbing and exceptionnal New Survey, the American Folk Art Museum is defining a new genre : outsider photography
Taylor Dafoe, Artnet News. February 17, 2021.
Photo brut, collection Bruno Decharme & compagnie
Lyle Rexer, The Brooklynrail. February 5, 2021.
Photography in the Raw
Roberta Smith, The New York Times. February 4, 2021.
is there such a thing as outsider photography?
Claire Margat, Artpress. May 22, 2020.
outsider art of the moment: 66 exhibitors, 7 countries, 1 fair
Holland Cotter, The New York Times. January 18, 2020.
Arles 6 : Photographie brute, vers un peu de cohérence
Marc Lenot, Amateur D’art, Par Lunettes Rouges. September 4, 2019.
Habiter la terre : frontière et durabilité
Yaël Hirsch, Toute La Culture. August 6, 2019.
Artpress à Arles. épisode 3
Charles-Arthur Boyer, Artpress. July 18, 2019.
Pépites brutes
E.L., Beaux Arts Magazine. July 2, 2019.
L’art brut à contre courant
Aurelie Romanacce, Pascaline Vallee Et Patrick Le Fur, Arts Magazine. August 29, 2014.
La flambée de l’art brut
Emmanuelle Lequeux, Beaux Arts. August 29, 2014.
Arte bruta
Richard Treger, Raw Vision. April 11, 2014.
Collections
LaM, musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut de Lille Métropole
France
Musée national d’art moderne (Pompidou)
France
collection de l’Art brut
Switzerland
abcd / Bruno Decharme collection
France
Antoine de Galbert collection
France
Video
OUTSIDER, l’incroyable histoire d’Henry Darger - EP2 : L’Art Brut, c’est quoi ? (Podcast)
Qu’est-ce qui fait d’Henry Darger un artiste d’art brut ? Ou encore un “outsider artist” comme on[…]
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