Presentation & book signing
by Michel Nedjar
Presentation and book signing by Michel Nedjar on Sunday, September 26 from 4 to 6 pm on the occasion of the publication of three books.
Figure Against Form: The Dolls of Michel Nedjar, Allen S. Weiss, Berlin, K. Verlag, 2021
// with the participation of Allen S. Weiss
Michel Nedjar, Tout est poupée. Conversations avec Jean-Michel Bouhours, Paris, Buchet/Chastel, 2021
// with the participation of Jean-Michel Bouhours
Exhibition catalog : Michel Nedjar, Filiations, under the supervision of N. Hazan-Brunet, texts by F. Ardeven, J-M. Bouhours, P. Comar and S. Faupin, Liénart ed. , Paris, 2021
// with the participation of Gilles Rion, in charge of the exhibitions and the departmental fund of contemporary art of Chamarande.
He is the most widely exhibited and published living art brut artist, yet the extraordinary trajectory of this Frenchman raises a question that is rarely addressed: that of the impermanence of art brut. Discovered by Jean Dubuffet at a time when he was working on the resurgence of the symbolic body, he allowed himself to become the protean artist we know and who, in his creation, embodies absolute freedom. His work can be found in countless collections, and he was the first artist brut to enter the collections of the Musée national d’art moderne (Pompidou). Exhibited at the Monnaie de Paris, the Albertina Museum and the Mona, Michel Nedjar has been the subject of nine monographic exhibitions.