two dolls by michel nedjar exhibited in “daniel cordier (1920-2020) - the spy who loved art”
The exhibition reveals secret archives as well as personal belongings, curiosities (…) of this patriot who became one of the faces of republican values—an impulsive fighter turned meticulous chronicler of Jean Moulin’s commitment.
It also features artworks passionately collected by the gallerist—before donating them to the Centre Pompidou between 1973 and 1989—by Marcel Duchamp, Mimi Parent, Jean Dubuffet, Henri Michaux, Michel Nedjar, and Brassaï.
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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.