Extravaganza
Treger Saint-Silvestre Collection
For this new exhibition at the Centro de arte Oliva, near Porto, the curator Antonia Gaeta has drawn from the Treger-Saint Silvestre collection the works illustrating the theme of extravagance.
Extravaganza is thus based on strangeness, the obsession with obscenity and nonsense, the refusal of logical rules, abstraction, a taste for the absurd, incongruity and all kinds of paradoxes.
In particular, the following will be exposed: Anna Zemánková, Davood Koochaki, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Giovanni Galli, Henry Speller, Joseph Barbiero, Margarethe Held, Marilena Pelosi, Mose Tolliver, Roy Wenzel, José Manuel Egea, Miroslav Tichý, Giovanni Battista Podestà, Pietro Ghizzardi, Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso and Pascal Tassini.
![portrait - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/joseph-barbiero/b9216b6251-1608547167/portrait-joseph-barbiero-400x.jpg)
![portrait of misleidys castillo pedroso - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/misleidys-francisca-castillo-pedroso/a52ba47085-1608547167/portrait-misleidys-castillo-pedroso-400x.jpg)
![Spain 1720, 1991. coloured pencil on paper, 12.01 x 17.99 in - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/g-c-deprie/c78cba2726-1608547167/dep002-400x.jpg)
![portrait of josé manuel egea - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/jose-manuel-egea/2fa730d6b6-1608547167/portrait-egea-en-loup-garou-400x.jpg)
![portrait of pietro ghizzardi - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/pietro-ghizzardi/fb3d373298-1608547167/portrait-pietro-ghizzardi-400x.jpg)
![Davood Koochaki - © ©christian berst art brut, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/davood-koochaki/e34ced82c4-1608547167/davood-koochaki-400x.jpg)
![Marilena Pelosi - © © mario del curto, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/marilena-pelosi/368f8bf594-1608547167/marilena-pelosi-portrait-400x.jpg)
![Giovanni Battista Podesta - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/giovanni-battista-podesta/936a13098c-1608547167/giovanni-battista-podesta-400x.jpg)
![friedrich schröder-sonnenstern - © photo: dietmar bührer, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/friedrich-schroder-sonnenstern/66ffac88ea-1608547167/157970-xxl-400x.jpg)
![portrait of henry speller - © photo: william arnett, 1987, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/henry-speller/7e1cbd21f6-1608547167/henry-speller-400x.jpg)
![portrait of pascal tassini - © mario del curto, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/pascal-tassini/66fd4f0575-1608547167/portrait-pascal-tassini-credits-mario-400x.jpg)
![Miroslav Tichý - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/miroslav-tichy/ec249288d4-1608547167/tic015-400x.jpg)
![Mose Tolliver, 1987. - © Gerald Jones, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/mose-t/5680e8e5c5-1608547167/mose-tolliver-credits-gerald-jones-1987-400x.jpg)
![eugene von bruenchenhein, self-portrait, 1947. - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/eugene-von-bruenchenhein/f793df7e4d-1608547167/eugene-von-bruenchenhein-400x.jpg)
![anna zemankova - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/anna-zemankova/6a69bef89b-1608547167/zemankova-portrait-400x.jpg)