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Art Exhibition - Art Brut and Affiliated Works
Date: 12/16/2005; 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location:
Osterman Common Room
0520 Rackham Building
915 E Washington
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
Exhibition 11/7–12/16, 2005
Thursday 11/10, 4:30-6:30 PM, Opening Reception
Gallery Hours
Thursdays and Fridays, 12:00 pm-8:00pm and by appointment.
Groups and classes welcome. Curatorial tours available.
Detailed Information
L’art brut, c’est l’art brut et tout le monde a très bien compris (Art Brut is Art Brut and everyone knows exactly what that means). In this provocative manner, in 1947, Jean Dubuffet described the works in his collection, now in the Musée de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan is hosting an original exhibition of Art Brut, and affiliated works on paper, canvas, recycled media, and sculpture, from twenty–five artists from the United States and France. It includes works both by artists that Dubuffet and his collaborators originally identified as makers of Art Brut and by artists with strong affinities with this creative movement.
All these artists share an urge “to create as a way of working through life.” They are self-taught, active explorers or actors led by an irrepressible need to do their art. Most of them have produced an amazing amount of works, often compulsively. Many of them began to work later in life, often on the heels of some traumatic event. Heedless of critics and indifferent to culturally accepted artistic norms, they create to heal and to survive.
In presenting these works, we invite viewers to reconsider definition(s) of art and to ask anew: What is art? What is its role and its function in society? What does it mean to share it? We further hope that this exhibition will call forth the artist in each of us, regardless of training in the fine arts, independent of norms and expectations. Art Brut is indeed a voyage into our human condition and struggle with various realities.
For the generous loan of the art on display, the Institute for the Humanities thanks the Musée de la Création Franche (Bègles, France), the Zeitgeist Gallery (Detroit, Michigan), Jeff Ross (Seattle, Washington), as well as all the artists.
Untitled painting by Jacques Karamanoukian
Contact Information
Doretha Coval
dcoval@umich.edu
734 936 3518 |
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