September 11 2020 #181
Ricco/Maresca Gallery: C.T. McClusky, "Circus Surreal"
From September 17 until October 24, 2020, the Ricco/Maresca Gallery will present the exhibition "C.T. McClusky: Circus Surreal".
Untitled, C.T. McClusky (late 1940s-1950s). Mixed media with collage on cardboard. 30.5 x 38 cm (12 x 15 in.)
McClusky was a circus clown who spent the winter seasons between the late 1940s and mid 1950s at a boarding house in Oakland, California. Working with found materials, he completed 53 mixed media collages on cardboard incorporating photographic cutouts, illustrations, as well as ephemera such as chocolate and candy wrappers. His vignettes from circus life are candid, nostalgic, and strikingly surreal.
Untitled, C.T. McClusky (late 1940s-1950s). Mixed media with collage on cardboard. 33 x 39 cm (13 x 15.5 in.)
"Circus Surreal" will be McClusky's gallery debut almost half a century after the discovery of this body of work.
Find the Ricco/Maresca Gallery, at 529 W. 20th St. 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10011.
Galerie Arthur Borgnis: ART BRUT À LA FOLIE!
From September 17 to October 25, Galerie Arthur Borgnis has joined forces with Jean-Jacques Plaisance from Galerie Les Yeux Fertiles to show thirty eight iconic artists whose works span 120 years of creation, from 1890 through to today.
"ART BRUT À LA FOLIE" by GALERIE ARTHUR BORGNIS (2020)
Exhibited artists include Anselme Boix-vives, Ida Buchmann, Raimundo Camilo, Charles A.A Dellschau, Fernand Desmoulin, Janko Domsic, Johann Fischer, Eugène Gabritschevsky, Madge Gill, Jerry Gretzinger, Karel Havlicek…
Untitled, Pecka, 1927. Colored pencils on paper, 88 x 60 cm (34,6 x 23,6 in)
… Emile Josome Hodinos, Josef Hofer, Stanislas Holas, Johann Korec, Josef Kotzian, Oskar Kreutzinger, Augustin Lesage, Raphael Lonne, Premysl Martinec, Cécilia Markova, Edmund Monsiel, J.B. Murray, František Jaroslav Pecka...
Drawing #G2, Madge Gill (1950s). Ink on postcard, 14 x 9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)
… Lubos Plny, Vasilij Romanenkov, Zbynek Semerak, Friedrich Schröder-sonnenstern, Miroslav Tichy, Mary Tillman Smith, Oswald Tschirtner, August Walla, George Widener, Scottie Wilson, Joseph Yoakum, Anna Zemankova, Henriette Zephir and Carlo Zinelli.
Untitled (cab-2098 recto), Carlo Zinelli (1957-58). Gouache on paper, 35 x 50 cm (13.8 x 19.7 in.)
For more information, visit www.galeriearthurborgnis.com.
Art Brut en Compagnie: Raymonde and Pierre Petit
Art Brut en Compagnie is hosting an exhibition of pieces in their collection until September 13, 2020, including work from Raymonde and Pierre Petit.
Photo: Dominik Fusina
It will be open to view every day from 2–7 pm at Centre Culturel in Jassans-Riottier (01480, 406 road Edouard Herriot).
"Discovering Collections" Part 1: Czech Mediumistic Art
MediumisticArt.com, managed by Vivienne Roberts, has launched a new series, "Discovering Collections", which focuses on "otherworldly" collections from around the world that aren't familiar with many people.
The first in the series is an exclusive interview with a couple from the Czech Republic about their incredible collection of Silesian mediumistic art and includes their new discoveries as well as well known artists, such as the largest collection of works by Josef Kotzian.
Jan Oravec with Jan Švankmajer (right) in September 2019. Photo: mediumisticart.com
"When we first saw the drawings by Josef Kotzian, it was a strong inspiration for us to find out more about these drawings and the mediumistic world. We thought it would be an easy and fast journey. Today we know how naive we were."
"We started our investigation sixty years after the end of the activities of the [Spiritualists Brotherhood Society], and almost fifty years after the death of the most important Silesian mediumistic artist, Josef Kotzian, who changed his name in 1945 to Kocián."
Left: Selected by Jan – Josef Kotzian 1922, 50 x 32,5 cm, sign. Solferino 9.VII. Right: Selected by Eva / Josef Kotzian 1919, 50 x 32 cm, unsigned, 24.IX.
"We are fascinated by every mediumistic drawing, but we are strongly attracted to the two shown here by Kotzian. It’s about the energy that radiates from these drawings, but of course that can affect everyone differently. This energy is non-transferable, so you need to hold the drawing in your hands and see all the details and let it affect you personally."
Read the full text and see more amazing artworks and photographs on the website.
To see more, follow their Instagram @mediumisticart and YouTube channel, mediumistic art.
See inside: Raw Vision 106
Preview a few pages from the latest issue of Raw Vision, #106, including the fold out artwork of Swift Runner by Joe Coleman.
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