Conference about Art Brut
at Sciences Po
Christian Berst will give a lecture on art brut on Monday 9 March from 5.30 pm to 7 pm in the Leroy Beaulieu amphitheatre at Sciences Po.
In addition, 12 works by Pepe Gaitán, a Colombian artist discovered and exhibited by the gallery in 2014, will be shown in the Library of the École Sciences Po in Paris from February 13 to March 17, 2015.
Born into the Colombian bourgeoisie, Pepe Gaitan has chosen to live a life of asceticism, the only pleasure of which comes directly from the daily reading he does in the national library in Bogotá. From these books, he selects pages that he photocopies and obliterates the counterforms. It is around these phantom graphemes that he composes his sibylline collages. In 2020, the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève honoured him in scrivere designando, an exhibition curated by Andrea Bellini and Sarah Lombardi.
Pepe disappeared at the beginning of 2022 without having completely solved the mystery of the amoebas running through the lines of his books.