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For this new edition of Drawing Now, which will be held in Paris from May 19 to 22, 2022, the gallery will present - booth A8 - artworks by Misleidys Castillo Pedroso, Anton Hirschfeld and Royal Robertson.

The artists presented turn the codes of drawing upside down. Indeed, the privileged place given to the palette or to writing tends to redefine the very technique of this medium. By choosing to present the works of Anton Hirschfeld (29 years old) in the artist’s focus and those of Misleidys Castillo Pedroso (37 years old) in the masterpieces section, the gallery is highlighting the most contemporary fringe of art brut. Royal Robertson (1930-1997), already part of the most important collections, such as the Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington D.C.), is today considered a classical artist of American art brut.

view of the christian berst art brut gallery booth A8, drawing now art fair, le carreau du temple, Paris, 2022 - © christian berst — art brut
view of the christian berst art brut gallery booth A8, drawing now art fair, le carreau du temple, Paris, 2022 - © christian berst — art brut
view of the christian berst art brut gallery booth A8, drawing now art fair, le carreau du temple, Paris, 2022 - © christian berst — art brut
Artworks
Please contact us to inquire about the available works.
Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso untitled, 2021
28.74 x 14.96 in
Anton Hirschfeld untitled, 2018
19.69 x 25.59 in
untitled - © christian berst — art brut
Royal Robertson untitled, 1990
22.05 x 27.95 in
Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso untitled, 2016
9.06 x 14.17 in
untitled (Paris bridge) - © christian berst — art brut
Anton Hirschfeld untitled (Paris bridge), 2017
19.69 x 25.59 in
untitled - © christian berst — art brut
Royal Robertson untitled, 1995
22.05 x 27.95 in
Artists
Royal Robertson - © christian berst — art brut

Royal Robertson

“Prophet” Royal Robertson spent most of his life in Louisiana with his wife and eleven children. Trained as a sign painter, his paranoid schizophrenia triggers his a prodigious creative fever. Ethereal ascents, portraits of deities, futuristic architectures alike “show houses” of a world to come, it is as if he had descended from his planet, carrying his own Tablets of Stone. Featured in countless international collections, such as the Smithsonian Museum of American Art (USA) or the Musée national d’Art moderne (Pompidou), his work was presented in 2018-19 in the travelling exhibition Into The Unknown, produced by the Barbican (London) and curated by Patrick Gyger.

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portrait of misleidys castillo pedroso - © christian berst — art brut

Misleidys Francisca Castillo Pedroso

This Cuban artist has no other means of expression than that of her creation. The walls of her home, where she lives with her mother, are covered with drawings of bodybuilders, brown tape scattered along the outlines. A true community of men, women, hermaphrodites and wildlife, Misleidys has built her sociality through her work. Discovered by the gallery in 2014, she has been featured in more than 10 international exhibitions since 2018, including New Images of Man in Los Angeles, Flying High in Vienna, and Independent in New York. Acclaimed by Matthew Higgs and Karen Wong (New Museum, NYC), the artist has been the subject of recent reviews in the New York Times and Art in America.
A significant number of his works was donated to the Centre Pompidou collection in 2021.

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Anton Hirschfeld - © christian berst — art brut

Anton Hirschfeld

Discovered thanks to the writer Nancy Huston, he is one of the youngest artists represented by the gallery. With his cursive writing, Anton Hirschfeld meshes lists of names, playlists or guests in processional columns, to form the unexpected frame of his works. As if the pastel, acrylic and ink that cover them were ordered according to secret links. First presented to the public in 2017 at the gallery, in march 2023, it was the subject of a documentary entitled “Le Voyage d’Anton” directed by Mariana Loupan with Schuch production.

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Press review
Retour du Salon du dessin contemporain
Roger Pierre Turine, La Libre Belgique. May 25, 2022.
Drawing Now Art Fair : c’est maintenant !
Sarah Belmont & Alison Moss, Le Quotidien De L’art. May 18, 2022.
Drawing Now Art Fair
La Rédaction, Parisart. May 17, 2022.
La saison des foires repart en force
La Rédaction, Le Journal Des Arts. May 17, 2022.
Drawing Now
Télérama. May 10, 2022.
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