celestial epics
art brut in the Decharme collection
As part of the exhibition Celestial Epics at Villa Médicis, twenty of the gallery’s artists are on show until May 19th: Anselme Boix-Vives, Jorge Alberto Cadi, Aloïse Corbaz, Fernand Desmoulin, Janko Domsic, Pietro Ghizzardi, Madge Gill, Zdeněk Košek, Joseph Lambert, Alexandre Lobanov, Ramón Losa, Dwight Mackintosh, Masao Obata, Jean Perdrizet, Harald Stoffers, Leopold Strobl, Mose Tolliver, Melvin Way, Scottie Wilson, Adolph Wölfli, Anna Zemánková and Carlo Zinelli.
Art brut has never ceased to shake up the history of art and nourish minds resistant to norms as it questions classic notions of art and creation as well as those relating to the normal and the pathological. But who are they, these artists of a special kind, witnesses to another world, strangers to stylistic trends and influences? They stay—or are kept—away from the culture of fine art as well as the codes and places that constitute it such as schools, academies, museums, art fairs, etc.
