February 12 2021     #203

The 7th Annual
Outsider Art Exhibition, Iran

Feb 5 – 15 2021

The 7th Annual Outsider Art Exhibition in Iran takes place from February 5 through to 15, 2021 at Gallery Outsiderinn// in collaboration with Mohsen Gallery.

Outsider Art develops its visual language based on directness and intense engagement with the subject. Outsider Artists are born as narrators who had never had the opportunity to tell their story before. Outsider Art is honest. The inner child is not yet completely silent and the world is still a magical playground full of inspiring phenomena. For outsiders, even the simplest things are valuable and important.

Curators: Morteza Zahedi & Sarvenaz Farsian 

Artists: Davood Koochaki, Salim Karami, Mokarameh Ghanbari, Mahmoodkhan, Jamshid Aminfar, Tajesar Jafari, Mohammad Banissi, Alikhan Abdollahi, Kazem Ezi, Nakhoda Adolrasoul Gharibi, Ghasem Ahmadi, Nazanin Tayebeh

Introducing: Nowraaz, Abolfazl Amin, Abbas Arvajeh

Outsiderville & Yuri Vinogradov:
Autoaesthetics

Outsiderville have released a multi-disciplinary, multi-media album/conceptual art project by Moscow-based artist, philosopher and musician Yuri Vinogradov.

Autoaesthetics was created by Yuri Vinogradov and Outsiderville. With the help of text, history of philosophy and his own music, Yuri interprets the art of the residents of the project and tries to find a place for them in art history.

Yuri is an self-educated artist, musician-improviser, composer, multi-instrumentalist, historian of philosophy and music journalist from Reutov, Russia, a resident of Outsiderville project and a leader of Outsiderville music label. He suffers from chronical resistant depression which deeply influence his live; art is a main coping strategy for him. Yuri Vinogradov is outsider in sense of social relationships but he creates very sophisticated and traditional though truly original music, musicological texts, visual art.

You can read Autoaesthetic texts (and listen to music too) in Russian on the Outsiderville website (they consist of outsider art manifesto and essays on paintings by Outsiderville residents) (outsider-art.ru/autoaesthetics) or on Bandcamp (outsiderville.bandcamp.com/album/autoaesthetics).

Mediumistic Art:
Paola Giovetti & Arte Medianica

Part Three of the Discovering Collections series has been released on MediumisticArt.com (@mediumisticart). It celebrates the seminal text and work of journalist, author and parapsychologist, Paola Giovetti. 

Her book, Arte Medianica, published in Italian in 1982, was, and remains today, one of the only books solely devoted to mediumistic and visionary art. Her collection of case studies include many great outsider artists such as Augustin Lesage, but also many new discoveries.

Left: L’evoluzione del mondo, Milly Canavero © Image courtesy of Paola Giovetti
Right: Drawing by Gertrud Emde © Image courtesy of Paola Giovetti

"I was directed towards mediumistic art through the friendship of one psychic in particular, Milly Canavero from Genoa who was one of the cases described later in my book. She was a lady who had by chance discovered her ability to practice automatic writing and later, unexpectedly, had begun to draw. Every day at the same time she felt compelled to take paper and pen and execute at great speed three perfect geometric drawings, accompanied with a message that explained their meaning."  (Paola Giovetti, 2020)

Mediumistic drawing by Salomè who described her works as letters from beyond and herself as only the postman. © Images courtesy of Paola Giovetti

“From a formal point of view these works present an exceptional richness and an incredible exuberance of decoration, which at times borders on the baroque and at other times it is simply playful or of a magical flavour; a true feast of colours, a profusion of symbols and a very marked ornamental taste. Above all they are beyond all style, trend and artistic current, and are not part of any era or school. It is a timeless art, or, better, out of time.” (Paola Giovetti, 1982)

Read a full interview with Giovetti at: 
mediumisticart.com/discovering-collections/arte-medianica

Ricco/Maresca:

Renaldo Kuhler: Stories from Rocaterrania

Curated by Brett Ingram, this two-part exhibition features Renaldo Kuhler works that have never before been offered.

Renaldo Kuhler (1931–2013) created an imaginary country he called Rocaterrania as a teenager and set out to illustrate its history for the rest of his life. An amalgam of Kuhler’s varied cultural and aesthetic tastes, Rocaterrania is a sovereign nation situated on the border of New York state and Canada, Rocaterrania’s name was derived from Rockland County, NY, Kuhler’s childhood home. 

The country has a unique government, military, language, religion, architecture, movie industry, and a fully mapped geography of cities, mountains, farmlands, lakes, and rivers. It also has a dramatic history of oppression, revolutions, prosperity, and reversals of fortune—one that mirrors the narrative arc of Kuhler’s own life.

Josip Wepka, Nikolai Romanovski & Gorghendi Kahn at Crystal Gardens, Kuhler, 1959. Ink on sketch paper, 11.5  x 8.75 in.

“Rocaterrania is not a utopia. It is not a fairyland or dreamland. What it is, it indirectly tells the story of my life and my struggle to become what I am today... I am Rocaterrania.”

"Rocaterrania (2009)" trailer by Brett Ingram

See Part 1 of this astounding exhibition at riccomaresca.com.

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