Photo Brut
Coll. Bruno Decharme & cie
Photo | Brut is co-produced by the American Folk Art Museum, the abcd / Bruno Decharme collection, and the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.
Can “art brut photography” be considered as a category of art brut, according to the definition given to this concept by Jean Dubuffet? It would then bring together shots, prints, photomontages, photocollages, made by self-taught authors, produced outside the conventional artistic circuits, in an asylar setting or in the solitude and marginality of cities as well as the countryside. Photo|Brut presents more than 500 works from Bruno Decharme’s collection, as well as a selection of other institutional and private collections chosen for their complementarity. Through four major themes - “Private Affairs”, “Reforming the World”, “Performer ou un autre je”, “Conjuring Reality” - the exhibition will attempt to define and present to the public this little studied field of art, even though there is a rich and fascinating body of work.
The exhibition is complemented by the museum’s holdings, as well as by artworks treasured by American collectors and public organizations.
![Henry Darger - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/henry-darger/eb7cd1c627-1608547167/henry-darger-400x.jpg)
![portrait of john devlin - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/john-devlin/040ceb3795-1608547167/portrait-john-devlin-400x.jpg)
![portrait of pepe gaitàn - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/pepe-gaitan/c78b410c4c-1608547167/portrait-pepe-gaitan-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)
![portrait - © © Mario del Curto, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/zdenek-kosek/13c4d90b9d-1608547167/zdenek-kosek-400x.jpg)
![Alexandre Lobanov - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/alexandre-lobanov/22bdbc6f81-1608547167/portrait-lobanov-400x.jpg)
![Tomasz Machcinski - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/tomasz-machcinski/fecdb0431f-1619682821/portrait-400x.jpg)
![Albert Moser - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/albert-moser/9921a36e8e-1608547167/portrait-albert-moser-400x.jpg)
![Luboš Plný - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/lubos-plny/d4593095b3-1700755724/capture-decran-2023-07-08-181343-400x-400x.png)
![leopold strobl, gugging - © marco prenninger, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/leopold-strobl/2d38dcbb23-1608547167/strobl-400x.jpg)
![dominique théate - © eulalie toussaint, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/dominique-theate/7fef6c68bf-1608547167/portrait-dominique-thcate-par-eulalie-toussaint-400x.jpg)
![Miroslav Tichý - © christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/miroslav-tichy/ec249288d4-1608547167/tic015-400x.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)
![august walla - © mario del curto, christian berst — art brut](https://christianberst.com/media/pages/artists/august-walla/5a21776e05-1608547167/august-walla-c-mario-del-curto-400x.jpg)