solo show carlo zinelli
art basel paris 2024, stand F10
Featured in the MoMA and the Centre Pompidou collections, exhibited at the Giardini during the Venice Biennale in 2013, Carlo Zinelli (1916-1974) passed away fifty years ago. The opportunity to pay tribute to an artist who has entered the pantheon of Art Brut, alongside Aloïse, Bill Traylor, Adolf Wölfli and Henry Darger.
This institutional recognition, which the early years of his life never foreshadowed (he was permanently committed to San Giacomo Hospital in Verona in his thirties), began with Jean Dubuffet. He included him in his Art Brut collection as early as 1960, following André Breton’s recommandation, admiring this beauty which, according to him, “will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
Committed at 31 years old after participating in the Spanish Civil War, Carlo Zinelli is now seen as a major figure of art brut. Like tales illustrating episodes of his life before his internment, his iterative and dislocated drawings in which perspective is abandoned and replaced by interstitial writings aligned with the concept of “modernity”. Honored in many international exhibitions, Carlo Zinelli was exhibited in the Giardini at the 2013 Venice Biennale and we are pleased to present his work at Art Basel Paris 2024. Many of his works were donated to the Centre Pompidou in 2021.
catalog published on the occasion of Art Basel Paris 2024
solo show carlo zinelli
from october 18th to october 20th
texts: christian berst an d guillaume oranger
get the catalog : click here