Silent Screams The dolls of Michel Nedjar
shown at Art Basel
Allen S. Weiss, Associate Teacher, Performance Studies and Cinema Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York will present a lecture performance around the movie Silent Screams The dolls of Michel Nedjar, on June 20 at 6 pm, during the Art Basel Fair (June 18 to 21, 2015).
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.
