Léon Schwarz-Abrys in the exhibition Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut
This exhibition, at the intersection of art and psychiatry, explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles (Reus, Spain, 1912 - Granges-sur-Lot, France, 1994).
After fleeing the Nationalist government of Franco amidst the Spanish Civil War, Tosquelles arrived in 1940 at the Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France, where he devised a series of revolutionary psychiatric practices that came to be called “institutional psychotherapy,” predicated on non-hierarchical relations between patients, doctors, manual laborers on site, neighboring communities, and outsiders.
Léon Schwarz-Abrys in the exhibition Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut