Face-to-Face with Art Brut

  • Temporary exhibition

From 20 March 2004 to 26 September 2004 

This exhibition of Art Brut faces - comical, burlesque, or sometimes enigmatic - welcomes the young at heart and most especially the young in age (as of 3 years). Unusual masks and singular figures invite one and all to enter the highly out-of-the-ordinary Art Brut world. On display are amazingly skillful heads that have been painted or drawn, sculpted or knitted, and this in silence, secrecy and solitude.

Their creators salvaged and assembled a variety of materials, including seashells, kneaded and dried bread, peelings, and dishware shards. In their personal approach to these materials, the likes of notably Aloïse, Maisonneuve, the Prisoner of Basel and Meani have come up with a marvelous gallery of impish portraits.

Artists from the Collection

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Whose works are presented in the exhibition

Portrait d'Aloïse
Photo: Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne

Corbaz, Aloïse

1886-1964, Suisse

sans titre
sans titre, 1928-1934

Giavarini, Joseph

1877-1934, Italie

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sans titre, 1927-1928

Maisonneuve, Pascal-Désir

1863-1934, France

sans titre sans titre
sans titre

Meani, Angelo

1906-1977, Italie