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Approche — Un salon dédié à l’expérimentation du medium photographique — 4e édition
Past: May 26 → 30, 2021
The a ppr oc he salon was originally scheduled to take place in November 2020. The sanitary crisis decided otherwise. But thanks to the desire and motivation of the artists and gallery directors, the team is happy to announce that the fourth edition of a ppr oc he, dedicated to unique pieces, will take place from 26 to 30 May.
Approche — Un salon dédié à l’expérimentation du medium photographique — 4e édition
Past: May 26 → 30, 2021
The a ppr oc he salon was originally scheduled to take place in November 2020. The sanitary crisis decided otherwise. But thanks to the desire and motivation of the artists and gallery directors, the team is happy to announce that the fourth edition of a ppr oc he, dedicated to unique pieces, will take place from 26 to 30 May.
Photography, mixed media
Multiple venues
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Paris Gallery Weekend — Édition 2019
Past: May 17 → 19, 2019
Over the course of its 5 previous editions, Paris Gallery Weekend marked itself as the Springtime “rendez-vous” for Paris and its art scene. The 6th edition of Paris Gallery Weekend will take place from Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May 2019 and 48 galleries have already confirmed their participation so far (see list below).
Paris Gallery Weekend — Édition 2019
Past: May 17 → 19, 2019
Over the course of its 5 previous editions, Paris Gallery Weekend marked itself as the Springtime “rendez-vous” for Paris and its art scene. The 6th edition of Paris Gallery Weekend will take place from Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May 2019 and 48 galleries have already confirmed their participation so far (see list below).
Event
Architecture, ceramic, collage...
Multiple venues
Archives
Passage Pas Sage
Past: Saturday, September 22, 2018 3 PM → 10 PM
Cette journée propose pour cette année 7e édition une déambulation entre les cinq galeries participantes ponctuée de notes de Jazz par Christophe Beuzer, de bouchées salées ou sucrées et de cocktails. Le tout sur les modules installés pour l’occasion par des élèves de l’école nationale supérieure de création industrielle.
Passage Pas Sage
Past: Saturday, September 22, 2018 3 PM → 10 PM
Cette journée propose pour cette année 7e édition une déambulation entre les cinq galeries participantes ponctuée de notes de Jazz par Christophe Beuzer, de bouchées salées ou sucrées et de cocktails. Le tout sur les modules installés pour l’occasion par des élèves de l’école nationale supérieure de création industrielle.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Passage Pas Sage — 5ème édition
Past: Saturday, September 3, 2016
Cette journée ouverte à tous proposera donc cette année de participer à cinq vernissages d’exposition d’art contemporain dans une ambiance festive, au rythme de performances alternant avec des concerts et des moments d’ambiance musicale propice à la déambulation de galerie en galerie.
Passage Pas Sage — 5ème édition
Past: Saturday, September 3, 2016
Cette journée ouverte à tous proposera donc cette année de participer à cinq vernissages d’exposition d’art contemporain dans une ambiance festive, au rythme de performances alternant avec des concerts et des moments d’ambiance musicale propice à la déambulation de galerie en galerie.
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Sur le fil — par Jean-Hubert Martin
Past: April 9 → May 22, 2016
For the first time in France, Jean-Hubert Martin — historian of art, heritage officer and curator has accepted the invitation of two galleries in Paris, christian berst art brut and Jean Brolly gallery to curate an exhibition intiating a fertile dialogue between Art Brut and contemporary art.
Sur le fil — par Jean-Hubert Martin
Past: April 9 → May 22, 2016
For the first time in France, Jean-Hubert Martin — historian of art, heritage officer and curator has accepted the invitation of two galleries in Paris, christian berst art brut and Jean Brolly gallery to curate an exhibition intiating a fertile dialogue between Art Brut and contemporary art.
Drawing, painting, photography...
Christian berst art brut
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Choices Paris — Collectors weekend
Past: May 21 → 22, 2016
Throughout 2 days, CHOICES presents a program encompassing almost 40 Parisian galleries and a collective exhibition which is this year being held at the Palais de Tokyo. In the program: openings, performances, meetings with the artists, gallery staff and curators.
Choices Paris — Collectors weekend
Past: May 21 → 22, 2016
Throughout 2 days, CHOICES presents a program encompassing almost 40 Parisian galleries and a collective exhibition which is this year being held at the Palais de Tokyo. In the program: openings, performances, meetings with the artists, gallery staff and curators.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Choices Paris — NextLevel Galerie
Past: May 21 → 22, 2016
San Francisco-based artist John Chiara (born in 1971) pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium through his choice of process and the mastery of its possibilities. His approach is distinguished by its incredible physicality and recalls the early days of the medium when artists dealt with heavy, awkward equipment and endured long exposure and development times. Chiara’s giant cameras, which he designed and built himself, are transported to locations on a flatbed trailer to produce one-of-a-kind large-scale prints. The design of the cameras, which is much like daguerreotype box cameras, allows the artist to simultaneously shoot and perform his darkroom work while images are recorded directly onto oversized photosensitive paper (not film). This process, which Chiara first discovered as a student in 1999, invites anomalies in his final prints and adds to the mystery and lyricism of his pictures.
Choices Paris — NextLevel Galerie
Past: May 21 → 22, 2016
San Francisco-based artist John Chiara (born in 1971) pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium through his choice of process and the mastery of its possibilities. His approach is distinguished by its incredible physicality and recalls the early days of the medium when artists dealt with heavy, awkward equipment and endured long exposure and development times. Chiara’s giant cameras, which he designed and built himself, are transported to locations on a flatbed trailer to produce one-of-a-kind large-scale prints. The design of the cameras, which is much like daguerreotype box cameras, allows the artist to simultaneously shoot and perform his darkroom work while images are recorded directly onto oversized photosensitive paper (not film). This process, which Chiara first discovered as a student in 1999, invites anomalies in his final prints and adds to the mystery and lyricism of his pictures.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Misleidys Castillo Pedroso & Daldo Marte — fuerza cubana
Past: February 4 → April 2, 2016
Misleidys Castillo Pedroso was born in 1985, with a severe hearing impairment. The little girl showed signs of developmental difficulties, she lived at home, in total isolation from society, before beginning, one day, to paint and then to cut out silhouettes of bodybuilders.
Misleidys Castillo Pedroso & Daldo Marte — fuerza cubana
Past: February 4 → April 2, 2016
Misleidys Castillo Pedroso was born in 1985, with a severe hearing impairment. The little girl showed signs of developmental difficulties, she lived at home, in total isolation from society, before beginning, one day, to paint and then to cut out silhouettes of bodybuilders.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
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Signature I Heart Girl par Jessica Yatrofsky
Past: Saturday, February 13, 2016 5 PM → 7 PM
The american photographer Jessica Yatrofsky has chosen the gallery to sign in Paris her book I Heart Girl, un porfolio de photographies de femmes, une invitation à réexaminer la féminité en soulignant la complexité de l’identification du sexe.
Signature I Heart Girl par Jessica Yatrofsky
Past: Saturday, February 13, 2016 5 PM → 7 PM
The american photographer Jessica Yatrofsky has chosen the gallery to sign in Paris her book I Heart Girl, un porfolio de photographies de femmes, une invitation à réexaminer la féminité en soulignant la complexité de l’identification du sexe.
Photography
Christian berst art brut
Archives
josef hofer — transmutations
Past: December 5, 2015 → January 16, 2016
From intimate clamors to miniscule disarrays, from subtle observations to profound deconstructions, Hofer invents constantly. As one would in order to make his way through his emotions. With humility and mastery.
josef hofer — transmutations
Past: December 5, 2015 → January 16, 2016
From intimate clamors to miniscule disarrays, from subtle observations to profound deconstructions, Hofer invents constantly. As one would in order to make his way through his emotions. With humility and mastery.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
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Franco Bellucci — beau comme...
Past: October 17 → November 21, 2015
Deprived of speech Franco Bellucci, began creating objects thus channeling his destructive inclinations and reconciling them with the state of immaturity that the onset of encephalitis had restricted him to at a very young age. He tirelessly produce, through hybridization, objects that at times seem transitional, at times like fetishes.
Franco Bellucci — beau comme...
Past: October 17 → November 21, 2015
Deprived of speech Franco Bellucci, began creating objects thus channeling his destructive inclinations and reconciling them with the state of immaturity that the onset of encephalitis had restricted him to at a very young age. He tirelessly produce, through hybridization, objects that at times seem transitional, at times like fetishes.
Sculpture
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Soit 10 ans — Etats intérieurs
Past: September 12 → October 10, 2015
To celebrate its 10th birthday, the gallery has organized an outstanding exhibition, entrusting its entire Parisian space to Stephane Correard. Creating a space for both construction and destruction in order to blend art brut and contemporary art, the curator reveals the continual support that the gallerist provides to the artists.
Soit 10 ans — Etats intérieurs
Past: September 12 → October 10, 2015
To celebrate its 10th birthday, the gallery has organized an outstanding exhibition, entrusting its entire Parisian space to Stephane Correard. Creating a space for both construction and destruction in order to blend art brut and contemporary art, the curator reveals the continual support that the gallerist provides to the artists.
Drawing, sculpture
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Spray final
Past: Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:30 PM → 7 PM
Le Passage pas sage organise samedi 10 octobre « Spray final », un live painting du graffeur unSolub, ultime touche à sa fresque réalisée passage des Gravilliers. Une expérience unique à Paris.
Spray final
Past: Saturday, October 10, 2015 4:30 PM → 7 PM
Le Passage pas sage organise samedi 10 octobre « Spray final », un live painting du graffeur unSolub, ultime touche à sa fresque réalisée passage des Gravilliers. Une expérience unique à Paris.
Closing
Drawing, sculpture
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Un dimanche à la galerie
Past: Sunday, September 27, 2015 12 PM → 6 PM
Rendez-vous immanquable, l’événement « Un dimanche à la galerie » est une belle occasion de découvrir la diversité des expositions proposées par plus de 100 galeries d’art à Paris, exceptionnellement ouvertes un dimanche pour accueillir le public. Retrouvez notre sélection d’expositions à ne pas manquer.
Un dimanche à la galerie
Past: Sunday, September 27, 2015 12 PM → 6 PM
Rendez-vous immanquable, l’événement « Un dimanche à la galerie » est une belle occasion de découvrir la diversité des expositions proposées par plus de 100 galeries d’art à Paris, exceptionnellement ouvertes un dimanche pour accueillir le public. Retrouvez notre sélection d’expositions à ne pas manquer.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
passage pas sage 2015 — vernissages, performances, concerts, libation et inauguration d’une fresque de 200 m2
Past: Saturday, September 12, 2015
Encouraged by the success of the previous editions, for the fourth year the Christian berst art brut gallery and the Sator gallery are proposing an immersive experience in le passage des Gravilliers by bringing together the new occupants, the gallery Under Construction and the graphic design workshop Paper Tiger!
passage pas sage 2015 — vernissages, performances, concerts, libation et inauguration d’une fresque de 200 m2
Past: Saturday, September 12, 2015
Encouraged by the success of the previous editions, for the fourth year the Christian berst art brut gallery and the Sator gallery are proposing an immersive experience in le passage des Gravilliers by bringing together the new occupants, the gallery Under Construction and the graphic design workshop Paper Tiger!
Archives
John Urho Kemp — Un triangle des bermudes
Past: May 30 → July 18, 2015
30 ans durant, l’Américain John Urho Kemp (1942-2010), connu également sous le nom de Crystal John, a médité sur les mystères de l’univers et transcrit ses spéculations cosmiques, mystiques, et philosophiques sur des milliers de support.
John Urho Kemp — Un triangle des bermudes
Past: May 30 → July 18, 2015
30 ans durant, l’Américain John Urho Kemp (1942-2010), connu également sous le nom de Crystal John, a médité sur les mystères de l’univers et transcrit ses spéculations cosmiques, mystiques, et philosophiques sur des milliers de support.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
John Urho Kemp — Un triangle des bermudes
Past: Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 5:30 PM
À l’occasion de la fin de l’exposition, performance sonore avec Le Laboratoire du Battement (José Navas et Nicolas Losson).
Closing
Archives
Les Jeudis Arty — Quatrième édition
Past: Thursday, June 4, 2015 6 PM → 10 PM
40 galeries du Marais vous ouvrent leurs portes de 18h à 22h pour une nocturne exceptionnelle mêlant vernissages, performances, rencontres avec des artistes et visites guidées.
Les Jeudis Arty — Quatrième édition
Past: Thursday, June 4, 2015 6 PM → 10 PM
40 galeries du Marais vous ouvrent leurs portes de 18h à 22h pour une nocturne exceptionnelle mêlant vernissages, performances, rencontres avec des artistes et visites guidées.
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Choices Paris — Collectors weekend
Past: May 29 → 31, 2015
For three days, 40 art galleries join forces to offer an itinerary across the capital through their respective exhibitions, but also a major group exhibition at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. This artistic itinerary goes from Belleville to Saint-Germain by way of the Marais, the Rue Louise Weiss, the Palais-Royal and Pantin.
Choices Paris — Collectors weekend
Past: May 29 → 31, 2015
For three days, 40 art galleries join forces to offer an itinerary across the capital through their respective exhibitions, but also a major group exhibition at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. This artistic itinerary goes from Belleville to Saint-Germain by way of the Marais, the Rue Louise Weiss, the Palais-Royal and Pantin.
Event
Mixed media
Multiple venues
Archives
Choices Paris — Christian berst art brut (klein et berst)
Past: May 29 → 31, 2015
John Uhro Kemp, lived in Berkeley (California), where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. After several years that were punctuated by travels, research and numerous jobs, he began to seek enlightenment through meditation, metaphysics, particularly through formulas and numbers drawn from his own history.
Choices Paris — Christian berst art brut (klein et berst)
Past: May 29 → 31, 2015
John Uhro Kemp, lived in Berkeley (California), where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. After several years that were punctuated by travels, research and numerous jobs, he began to seek enlightenment through meditation, metaphysics, particularly through formulas and numbers drawn from his own history.
Event
Mixed media
Christian berst art brut
Archives
August Walla — ecce Walla
Past: April 18 → May 23, 2015
August Walla, considered for a long time one of the “classics” of Art Brut, was certainly the most versatile of them. The painted works of this Austrian genius have nonetheless been exhibited and collected for almost 40 years.
August Walla — ecce Walla
Past: April 18 → May 23, 2015
August Walla, considered for a long time one of the “classics” of Art Brut, was certainly the most versatile of them. The painted works of this Austrian genius have nonetheless been exhibited and collected for almost 40 years.
Drawing, photography
Christian berst art brut
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Sauvées du désastre — Œuvres de deux collections de psychiatres espagnols (1916-1965)
Past: March 7 → April 11, 2015
In the life of a gold-washer to find a gold-bearing vein that spreads over the 20th century in this way has become something rare and precious. For in these ensembles that form the collections of the Spanish psychiatrists Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora and Ramón Sarró, we can discern much more than a freeze frame of what was then called psychopathology of expression.
Sauvées du désastre — Œuvres de deux collections de psychiatres espagnols (1916-1965)
Past: March 7 → April 11, 2015
In the life of a gold-washer to find a gold-bearing vein that spreads over the 20th century in this way has become something rare and precious. For in these ensembles that form the collections of the Spanish psychiatrists Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora and Ramón Sarró, we can discern much more than a freeze frame of what was then called psychopathology of expression.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Beverly Baker — Palimpseste
Past: February 3 → 28, 2015
Beverly Baker’s drawings are created through the obsessive layering of text found in a small selection of books and magazines that she uses as reference material. The final abstract compositions generally retain only faint clues of their genesis in language as Baker draws continuously on the same sheet.
Beverly Baker — Palimpseste
Past: February 3 → 28, 2015
Beverly Baker’s drawings are created through the obsessive layering of text found in a small selection of books and magazines that she uses as reference material. The final abstract compositions generally retain only faint clues of their genesis in language as Baker draws continuously on the same sheet.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
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Peter Kapeller — l’œuvre au noir
Past: December 6, 2014 → January 24, 2015
Peter Kapeller, born in Vienna in 1969, slowly and meticulously puts his obsessions in order. He ruminates much yet produces little. He produces at the very most a few drawings per year, intensely dark and dense, in which his impulses, phantoms, revolts and hopes are deposited, layer by layer, until everything is buried.
Peter Kapeller — l’œuvre au noir
Past: December 6, 2014 → January 24, 2015
Peter Kapeller, born in Vienna in 1969, slowly and meticulously puts his obsessions in order. He ruminates much yet produces little. He produces at the very most a few drawings per year, intensely dark and dense, in which his impulses, phantoms, revolts and hopes are deposited, layer by layer, until everything is buried.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Art brut, masterpieces et découvertes — Carte blanche à Bruno Decharme
Past: October 21 → November 29, 2014
The gallery gave carte blanche to Bruno Decharme, who has been a collector of outsider art for over thirty years. Composed of more than 3,500 pieces, the collection numbers 300 artists from the middle of the 19th century up until the present. This exceptional collection is exhibited in parallel at the Maison Rouge.
Art brut, masterpieces et découvertes — Carte blanche à Bruno Decharme
Past: October 21 → November 29, 2014
The gallery gave carte blanche to Bruno Decharme, who has been a collector of outsider art for over thirty years. Composed of more than 3,500 pieces, the collection numbers 300 artists from the middle of the 19th century up until the present. This exceptional collection is exhibited in parallel at the Maison Rouge.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Pepe Gaitán — Epiphany
Past: September 9 → October 11, 2014
The gallery exhibits José (Pepe) Gaitán’s drawings, discovered this year in Columbia while the Cuban Misleidys Castillo’s paintings are presented in the cabinet of curiosities.
Pepe Gaitán — Epiphany
Past: September 9 → October 11, 2014
The gallery exhibits José (Pepe) Gaitán’s drawings, discovered this year in Columbia while the Cuban Misleidys Castillo’s paintings are presented in the cabinet of curiosities.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Passage — Pas/Sage
Past: Saturday, September 6, 2014 3 PM → 10 PM
For the third year running, the Galerie Christian Berst and the Galerie Sator form a partnership for the day for the immersive experience “Passage Pas/Sage”. The Passage des Gravilliers is the location for new synergies between international contemporary art grand openings, performances, installations and immersion of the senses.
Passage — Pas/Sage
Past: Saturday, September 6, 2014 3 PM → 10 PM
For the third year running, the Galerie Christian Berst and the Galerie Sator form a partnership for the day for the immersive experience “Passage Pas/Sage”. The Passage des Gravilliers is the location for new synergies between international contemporary art grand openings, performances, installations and immersion of the senses.
Archives
Michel Nedjar — Momentum (une rétrospective)
Past: May 23 → July 12, 2014
The Christian Berst gallery presents a retrospective on Michel Nedjar, one of the most exhibited artists globally of ‘Outsider art’ over the last three decades and whose work already features around 30 times at the Pompidou centre. Apart from original pieces, correspondence received from Jean Dubuffet will also be exhibited for the first time.
Michel Nedjar — Momentum (une rétrospective)
Past: May 23 → July 12, 2014
The Christian Berst gallery presents a retrospective on Michel Nedjar, one of the most exhibited artists globally of ‘Outsider art’ over the last three decades and whose work already features around 30 times at the Pompidou centre. Apart from original pieces, correspondence received from Jean Dubuffet will also be exhibited for the first time.
Drawing, sculpture
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Dan Miller — Graphein II
Past: April 25 → May 17, 2014
Dan Miller’s work is highly contemporary in formal terms, with notable echoes of Pollock and Cy Twombly, nonetheless he invents his modes of expression outside the boundaries of mainstream artistic debate.
Dan Miller — Graphein II
Past: April 25 → May 17, 2014
Dan Miller’s work is highly contemporary in formal terms, with notable echoes of Pollock and Cy Twombly, nonetheless he invents his modes of expression outside the boundaries of mainstream artistic debate.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
paños — prison break
Past: March 11 → April 19, 2014
Emblematic of the Latino subculture of Los Angeles prisons, the paños are an exceptional research subject. Boris Santamaria, a Cuban prisoner whose poignant and uncompromising drawings are presented for the first time, cannot totally escape the codes of counter-culture.
paños — prison break
Past: March 11 → April 19, 2014
Emblematic of the Latino subculture of Los Angeles prisons, the paños are an exceptional research subject. Boris Santamaria, a Cuban prisoner whose poignant and uncompromising drawings are presented for the first time, cannot totally escape the codes of counter-culture.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
James Edward Deeds — The electric pencil
Past: November 29, 2013 → January 18, 2014
The delicacy and precision of the penmanship is in stark contrast with the hallucinatory family portrait that rises from these pages, the bulging eyes that question us compose the vibrant complaint of a broken man, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital at the age of 17, and saved only by his creation.
James Edward Deeds — The electric pencil
Past: November 29, 2013 → January 18, 2014
The delicacy and precision of the penmanship is in stark contrast with the hallucinatory family portrait that rises from these pages, the bulging eyes that question us compose the vibrant complaint of a broken man, forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital at the age of 17, and saved only by his creation.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Eugene von Bruenchenhein — American Beauty
Past: October 18 → November 23, 2013
Thanks to his prolific photographic output, mainly comprising pictures of his wife, Von Bruenchenhein’s renown has extended far beyond the amateur circles of Art Brut.
Eugene von Bruenchenhein — American Beauty
Past: October 18 → November 23, 2013
Thanks to his prolific photographic output, mainly comprising pictures of his wife, Von Bruenchenhein’s renown has extended far beyond the amateur circles of Art Brut.
Photography
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Découvertes et nouvelles acquisitions — Rentrée hors-les-normes 2013
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2013
Pour la rentrée 2013, la galerie christian berst propose sa formule d’exposition « hors-les-normes » qui lui permet de présenter une collective de créateurs d’art brut contemporain montrés pour la première fois. Lors de ce rendez-vous annuel, sont également exposées de nouvelles acquisitions des créateurs qu’elle représente.
Découvertes et nouvelles acquisitions — Rentrée hors-les-normes 2013
Past: September 7 → October 12, 2013
Pour la rentrée 2013, la galerie christian berst propose sa formule d’exposition « hors-les-normes » qui lui permet de présenter une collective de créateurs d’art brut contemporain montrés pour la première fois. Lors de ce rendez-vous annuel, sont également exposées de nouvelles acquisitions des créateurs qu’elle représente.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Anna Zemankova — hortus deliciarum
Past: May 31 → July 20, 2013
Are our times so disenchanted that the Venice Biennale has invested the works of a poor soul from Moravia with the power of liberating new potential? Anna Zemánková, now an established figure in the world of Outsider Art, began while in her 50s to produce works that nothing in her background had readied her for.
Anna Zemankova — hortus deliciarum
Past: May 31 → July 20, 2013
Are our times so disenchanted that the Venice Biennale has invested the works of a poor soul from Moravia with the power of liberating new potential? Anna Zemánková, now an established figure in the world of Outsider Art, began while in her 50s to produce works that nothing in her background had readied her for.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Davood Koochaki — Un conte persan
Past: March 16 → April 20, 2013
Davood Koochaki draws enigmatic characters, gradually refining a technique that is close to cross-hatching, and increasing the size of his works. His devilish, deformed chimeras appeared as if hidden by a veil, with just their gazes, rictus smiles, and, in many cases, genitals giving them the appearance of tangible, embodied, unveiled beings.
Davood Koochaki — Un conte persan
Past: March 16 → April 20, 2013
Davood Koochaki draws enigmatic characters, gradually refining a technique that is close to cross-hatching, and increasing the size of his works. His devilish, deformed chimeras appeared as if hidden by a veil, with just their gazes, rictus smiles, and, in many cases, genitals giving them the appearance of tangible, embodied, unveiled beings.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Mary T. Smith — Mississipi shouting
Past: January 22 → March 2, 2013
Mary Tillman Smith suffered from a hearing impairment that isolated her as a child, leading her to develop a powerful creative urge. Smith’s work was much admired by Jean-Michel Basquiat, who certainly drew on it for a repertoire of images that was as primal as it was radical. She is now recognised as one of the greatest figures of African-American Art Brut.
Mary T. Smith — Mississipi shouting
Past: January 22 → March 2, 2013
Mary Tillman Smith suffered from a hearing impairment that isolated her as a child, leading her to develop a powerful creative urge. Smith’s work was much admired by Jean-Michel Basquiat, who certainly drew on it for a repertoire of images that was as primal as it was radical. She is now recognised as one of the greatest figures of African-American Art Brut.
Painting
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Alexis Lippstreu — Quintessentiel
Past: December 7, 2012 → January 12, 2013
Alexis Lippstreu began drawing compulsively about ten years ago. Anything he does not draw he remains silent about, and when he does express himself in response to a direct request he does so in breathy monosyllables that hang by a thread. He has never spoken about his motivations or the meaning of his creations. His autism raises his art to the level of mystery.
Alexis Lippstreu — Quintessentiel
Past: December 7, 2012 → January 12, 2013
Alexis Lippstreu began drawing compulsively about ten years ago. Anything he does not draw he remains silent about, and when he does express himself in response to a direct request he does so in breathy monosyllables that hang by a thread. He has never spoken about his motivations or the meaning of his creations. His autism raises his art to the level of mystery.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Charles Steffen — L’autre maître de Chicago
Past: October 19 → November 24, 2012
Charles Steffen and Henry Darger never met, though they lived in the same Chicago neighbourhood; the connection between them has been forged by their posthumous recognition as masters of “irregular” art. While Darger, discovered in the 1970s, is now acclaimed by the artistic elite, Steffen, whose work came to light more recently, remains little known.
Charles Steffen — L’autre maître de Chicago
Past: October 19 → November 24, 2012
Charles Steffen and Henry Darger never met, though they lived in the same Chicago neighbourhood; the connection between them has been forged by their posthumous recognition as masters of “irregular” art. While Darger, discovered in the 1970s, is now acclaimed by the artistic elite, Steffen, whose work came to light more recently, remains little known.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Albert Moser — Life as a panoramic
Past: June 1 → July 21, 2012
The work of Albert Moser, a creator as lacking in learning as he is guarded, is a major discovery. Now that his work is revealed, the eternal question arises again of how such work, designed and stored in secret, should be received. Next, Moser’s creations forcefully pose questions about the problem of photography in outsider art.
Albert Moser — Life as a panoramic
Past: June 1 → July 21, 2012
The work of Albert Moser, a creator as lacking in learning as he is guarded, is a major discovery. Now that his work is revealed, the eternal question arises again of how such work, designed and stored in secret, should be received. Next, Moser’s creations forcefully pose questions about the problem of photography in outsider art.
Photography
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Dan Miller — graphein
Past: March 22 → May 19, 2012
Dan Miller’s creativity in superimposing layers of writing to the point of illegibility has proved such a source of fascination for audiences that his art has now reached beyond the sphere of Art Brut to enter the permanent collection at the MoMA. Formally contemporary, Miller’s work nonetheless invents his expression outside the mainstream debate.
Dan Miller — graphein
Past: March 22 → May 19, 2012
Dan Miller’s creativity in superimposing layers of writing to the point of illegibility has proved such a source of fascination for audiences that his art has now reached beyond the sphere of Art Brut to enter the permanent collection at the MoMA. Formally contemporary, Miller’s work nonetheless invents his expression outside the mainstream debate.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Jean Perdrizet — Deus ex machina
Past: February 3 → March 10, 2012
Historians of twentieth-century science have not recorded the name of Jean Perdrizet for posterity. Perdrizet was originally a deputy civil engineer with the Bridges and Highways department before mental health issues forced him out of his career. He proved a fascinating figure for the many speculative thinkers and scientists he met, describing himself as an inventor.
Jean Perdrizet — Deus ex machina
Past: February 3 → March 10, 2012
Historians of twentieth-century science have not recorded the name of Jean Perdrizet for posterity. Perdrizet was originally a deputy civil engineer with the Bridges and Highways department before mental health issues forced him out of his career. He proved a fascinating figure for the many speculative thinkers and scientists he met, describing himself as an inventor.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Josef Hofer — Alter ego
Past: December 2, 2011 → January 14, 2012
Josef Hofer is not merely an example of such artists: he is the very archetype. Arnulf Rainer, a leading collector of his work, describes him as “the greatest” of all contemporary Brut artists. Hofer is a candid Narcissus whose reputation has spread beyond a small circle of specialists for nearly ten years now.
Josef Hofer — Alter ego
Past: December 2, 2011 → January 14, 2012
Josef Hofer is not merely an example of such artists: he is the very archetype. Arnulf Rainer, a leading collector of his work, describes him as “the greatest” of all contemporary Brut artists. Hofer is a candid Narcissus whose reputation has spread beyond a small circle of specialists for nearly ten years now.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
josef hofer — alter ego
Past: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 7 PM → 9 PM
Table ronde avec Christian Boltanski et Philippe Dagen sur le thème « l’art brut est-il soluble dans l’art contemporain ? ».
Lecture
Archives
Pietro ghizzardi — Charbons ardents
Past: October 14 → November 19, 2011
Rien, absolument rien, ne prédisposait Pietro Ghizzardi, né en 1906 dans une famille paysanne de la région de Mantoue, à devenir l’un des créateurs les plus emblématiques de l’art brut italien. Et ce, bien qu’il fut longtemps — à l’instar d’une Séraphine de Senlis — enrôlé abusivement parmi les naïfs.
Pietro ghizzardi — Charbons ardents
Past: October 14 → November 19, 2011
Rien, absolument rien, ne prédisposait Pietro Ghizzardi, né en 1906 dans une famille paysanne de la région de Mantoue, à devenir l’un des créateurs les plus emblématiques de l’art brut italien. Et ce, bien qu’il fut longtemps — à l’instar d’une Séraphine de Senlis — enrôlé abusivement parmi les naïfs.
Collage, painting
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Carlo Zinelli — Une beauté convulsive
Past: June 10 → July 23, 2011
À la fin des années 50, Dino Buzzati puis Alberto Moravia prenaient la plume pour signaler au monde le grand créateur qui venait de se révéler dans l’enceinte de l’asile San Giacomo à Vérone. Carlo Zinelli commençait tout juste à peindre sur papier ce qu’il avait ébauché plus tôt en lacérant les murs de l’établissement avec des pierres et des morceaux de brique.
Carlo Zinelli — Une beauté convulsive
Past: June 10 → July 23, 2011
À la fin des années 50, Dino Buzzati puis Alberto Moravia prenaient la plume pour signaler au monde le grand créateur qui venait de se révéler dans l’enceinte de l’asile San Giacomo à Vérone. Carlo Zinelli commençait tout juste à peindre sur papier ce qu’il avait ébauché plus tôt en lacérant les murs de l’établissement avec des pierres et des morceaux de brique.
Painting
Christian berst art brut
Carlo Zinelli — Un récit au-delà du langage
Past: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7 PM → 9 PM
Daniela Rosi, professeur en histoire sociale de l’art, directrice de l’Observatoire national de l’outsider art à l’Académie des Beaux-arts de Vérone, donnera une conférence à la galerie « un récit au-delà…
Lecture
Archives
Joseph Barbiero — au-dessus du volcan
Past: April 29 → June 4, 2011
Joseph Barbiero, né en 1901 près de Padoue, se blottit au creux des volcans d’Auvergne en 1923 après avoir fui l’Italie mussolinienne. Il y exerce jusqu’en 1965 le métier de maçon, y usant de la pierre de Volvic, notamment dans la restauration d’églises locales.
Joseph Barbiero — au-dessus du volcan
Past: April 29 → June 4, 2011
Joseph Barbiero, né en 1901 près de Padoue, se blottit au creux des volcans d’Auvergne en 1923 après avoir fui l’Italie mussolinienne. Il y exerce jusqu’en 1965 le métier de maçon, y usant de la pierre de Volvic, notamment dans la restauration d’églises locales.
Drawing, sculpture
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Henriette Zéphir — Une femme sous influence
Past: February 3 → March 5, 2011
Henriette Zéphir, née en 1920, s’adonne depuis un demi-siècle à « l’occulte », comme elle dit. Découverte par Jean Dubuffet — qui l’exposa en 1967 au Musée des Arts décoratifs, à Paris, et lui consacra un texte – Mme Zéphir ne consentit jamais à céder ses œuvres, jusqu’à ce que ses « guides » l’incitent récemment à en diffuser les énergies positives.
Henriette Zéphir — Une femme sous influence
Past: February 3 → March 5, 2011
Henriette Zéphir, née en 1920, s’adonne depuis un demi-siècle à « l’occulte », comme elle dit. Découverte par Jean Dubuffet — qui l’exposa en 1967 au Musée des Arts décoratifs, à Paris, et lui consacra un texte – Mme Zéphir ne consentit jamais à céder ses œuvres, jusqu’à ce que ses « guides » l’incitent récemment à en diffuser les énergies positives.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
Archives
Guo Fengyi — Une rhapsodie chinoise
Past: December 9, 2010 → January 15, 2011
Ces productions, à l’encre de chine et au pinceau, parfois longues de plus de 5 mètres, sont élaborées sans idée préalable, Guo découvre sa création au fur et à mesure qu’elle la dessine. A travers une multitude de traits délicats, se dessinent des formes spectrales, dragons, phenix, visages parfois entremêlés.
Guo Fengyi — Une rhapsodie chinoise
Past: December 9, 2010 → January 15, 2011
Ces productions, à l’encre de chine et au pinceau, parfois longues de plus de 5 mètres, sont élaborées sans idée préalable, Guo découvre sa création au fur et à mesure qu’elle la dessine. A travers une multitude de traits délicats, se dessinent des formes spectrales, dragons, phenix, visages parfois entremêlés.
Drawing
Christian berst art brut
03 Le Marais
03 Le Marais
Arts et Métiers
Rambuteau
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