talk with christian berst & philippe dagen
art brut and surrealism
The month of October makes Paris the nerve center of the international modern and contemporary art market, with prestigious exhibitions including Surréalisme at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the famous Art Basel Paris fair. Tajan also contributes to the cultural influence of the City of Light with a round-table discussion on Surrealism and Art Brut on Friday, October 18th at 7 pm.
André Breton, author of the Surrealist Manifesto, whose 100th anniversary we celebrate this year, took part in the early research into Art Brut alongside Jean Dubuffet. A fervent supporter of Dubuffet’s 1948 exhibition l’Art Brut préféré aux arts culturels at the Galerie René Drouin, André Breton helped legitimize and promote the concept, which he saw as a certain continuity with his own work exploring the hidden forces of the unconscious.
For Breton, Art Brut represented a kind of pure art, uncorrupted by social and aesthetic codes. While he shared Dubuffet’s rejection of academicism and the norms of “cultural” art, Breton did not want to reduce Art Brut to a creation totally devoid of aesthetic intent. Unlike Dubuffet, who saw Art Brut as a total rejection of institutionalized art, Breton believed it could enter into a dialogue with Surrealism as a legitimate, aesthetic form of expression.
talk with christian berst and philippe dagen
art brut and surrealism
friday, october 18th at 7pm
tajan, 37 rue des mathurins, paris 8e
to register click here