Salo IV

A resident of an Austrian institution for more than thirty years, Josef Hofer did not speak; he drew. Tirelessly. In the mirror he held up to himself, and to us, his figures strive to break free from the constraint of the frame with an eroticised, untamed grace. His drawings give visual form to a fundamental duality between body and psyche.
Held by numerous museums, his work features in major private collections such as those of Antoine de Galbert (FR) and Arnulf Rainer (AT), who regarded him as “one of the greatest contemporary art brut artists.” A significant group of his works entered the collections of the Centre Pompidou in 2021.
In 2026, the gallery published a 270-page monograph and launched an online catalogue raisonné of nearly 3,000 works.

At a very young age, Marilena Pelosi began to make drawings in which exuberant Catholicism and feverish Macumba, from her native Brazil, swirled to the point of delirium. The reminiscence of trance, eucharistic processions and carnivals are inextricably combined with much more intimate evocations. Established in France for several decades, she continues these same troubling drawings, made with ballpoint pens, in which doll-women are both executioners and victims. Now part of the CNAP collection, in 2019 she will join BIC (France), and in 2021 the Musée d’art moderne (Pompidou, France) and was recently included in the collections of LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, Art Contemporain, and Art Brut in 2025 (France).