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Joseph Lambert spent his days in the ‘S’ Grand Atelier writing, knitting “words,” signs understood by only him and attached to each other to form visual sentences, which form a stratum, a geological layer in the heart of the text as if the landscape stretched out all the while rolling itself up, in a twist. Text, texture, textile, weaving of signs. Present in the collections of the Musée national d’Art moderne (Pompidou), it was notably exhibited at the Maison Rouge, in 2015 and at the LAM (Villeneuve-d’Ascq), in 2018, in the at the LAM (Villeneuve-d’Ascq), in 2018, in the exhibition “Les refuges du récit”.

Joseph Lambert - © christian berst — art brut
Date 1950 —
Country Belgium

Joseph Lambert works in La “S” Grand Atelier, an art and cultural centre located in the Belgian Ardennes. There, with the patience of a monastic scribe, he writes an endless text in a language known only to himself. He strokes swirl in blues, yellows, and violets to create their magic… So many wavelengths with which Lambert lights up the world like a celestial body whose gravitational pull the reader-spectator suddenly feels.
The result perhaps calls to mind geological layers, or else a series of superimposed rainbows. Thus does Lambert’s writing-cum-drawing preserve its appearance of a coloured book of spells, whose secrets no one will ever be able to purloin.
Manuel Anceau

Artworks
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Joseph Lambert, untitled - © christian berst — art brut
Joseph Lambert, untitled, 2014
27.56 x 11.02 in
untitled - © christian berst — art brut
untitled, 2017
43.31 x 11.42 in
untitled - © christian berst — art brut
untitled, 2006
25.59 x 19.69 in
Catalog
In abstracto #2
Catalogue published to mark the exhibition *In abstracto #2*, christian berst art brut, Paris, 2020. - © christian berst art brut, christian berst — art brut

Preface : Raphaël Koenig.
Foreword : Christian Berst.
Catalog published to mark the exhibition In abstracto #2, from March 5th to May 30th, 2020.

Exhibitions
celestial epics
art brut in the Decharme collection, Villa Médicis. From March 1 to May 19, 2024.
OR BOR :
séries non spéculatives, exit 11, belgique. From September 11 to November 13, 2022.
do the write thing :
read between the lines #3, main gallery. From April 2 to May 22, 2022.
in abstracto #2
at the gallery. From March 5 to June 6, 2020.
ART BRUT
La Pinacothèque, Luxembourg. From January 26 to June 15, 2019.
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do the write thing 2
read between the lines, at the gallery. From April 26 to June 2, 2018.
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.
in abstracto
at the gallery. From June 8 to July 15, 2017.
Writescape
Textual Poetry of Art Brut, Entrepot Gallery, Monaco. From July 12 to September 29, 2016.
Tell It Slant
Frith Street Gallery, Londres. From February 12 to April 29, 2016.
art brut masterpieces and discoveries
carte blanche à bruno decharme, at the gallery. From October 21 to November 29, 2014.
Art brut
ABCD Collection / Bruno Decharme, la Maison rouge, Paris. From October 17, 2014 to January 18, 2015.
exhibition view of *in abstracto #2*, christian berst art brut, paris, 2020. - © christian berst art brut, christian berst — art brut
exhibition view of *in abstracto #2*, christian berst art brut, paris, 2020. - © christian berst art brut, christian berst — art brut
Collections
Musée national d’art moderne (Pompidou)
France
Antoine Frérot collection
France
abcd / Bruno Decharme collection
France
Hervé Lancelin collection
Luxembourg
Trinkhall museum
Belgium
Video
In abstracto BFMtv
Language French
Joseph Lambert

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