This catalogue presents pieces by twenty-five new Japanese artists from different regions of Japan, whose works drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and textiles - are largely unpublished.
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This catalogue presents pieces by twenty-five new Japanese artists from different regions of Japan, whose works drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and textiles - are largely unpublished.
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Following the publication of Art Brut du Japon,co-published in 2008 by the Collection de l'Art Brut and editionsInfolio, this catalogue presents pieces by twenty-five new Japaneseartists from different regions of Japan, whose works drawings,paintings, photographs, sculptures, and textiles - are largelyunpublished. The authors explore the assimilation of Japanese Art Brutinto the larger culture from 2008 to the present. As they point out,whereas the notion of mental handicap resides in aesthetic andsociological criteria (these artists are self-taught, and often sociallymarginalized misfits, draft dodgers, prisoners, psychiatric patients,the elderly, etc. who create outside of the official art system), thecondition whether mental or physical is not a criterion in itself.Accompanying an exhibition at Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne fromNovember 30, 2018 to April 28, 2019, this catalogue of new Japaneseworks expands our understanding of Art Brut in a contemporary albeitdifferent cultural setting.
Text in English and French.
About the Author
Sarah Lombardi is an art historian and has beendirector of the Collection de l'Art Brut since 2013. Since herappointment as head of this Lausanne institution, she has placedemphasis on enhancing the prestige of the museum's collections bycreating biennials of Art Brut (theme-based exhibitions present worksexclusively from the institution's collection) and a new series ofpublications titled Art Brut, the Collection. She has worked onexhibition catalogues from the museums' own collection, and hascontributed articles on Art Brut for other exhibitions catalogues andspecialised reviews. She also writes the series of articles L'Art Brut begun in 1964 by Jean Dubuffet, and in November 2016 edited the Almanach de l'Art Brut, a project launched by Jean Dubuffet in 1948, a seminal work in the history of Art Brut. Edward M. Gómezis a journalist, art critic, exhibition curator, and a specialist inmodern art and Japanese culture, in particular on Art Brut. He haswritten for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, S. F.Gate/San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, salon.com,ARTnews, Art in America, Art & Antiques, Art + Auction, Metropolis,Interview, Modern Painters, Condé Nast Traveler, Eye (London), The JapanTimes, Ikebana Ryusei. Tadashi Hattori is anassociate professor of art history and theory at the Konan University inKobe, Japan, and a former curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum ofArt in Kobe. He writes for numerous publications and curates manyexhibitions about Art Brut and arts by the disabled. He collaborateswith institutions for Art Brut in Europe such as abcd Art Brut, AdolfWölfli-Stiftung, and Musée de la Création Franche.
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