Burning Man, Nevada
August 27 – September 4, 2017
Each year, tens of thousands of people gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert to create Black Rock City, a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. The art theme in 2017 is Radical Ritual.
Burning Man was featured in Raw Vision 57.
Folk Art Society of America Conference
October 19–22, 2017
Folk Art Society of America's 30th Anniversary Conference in Santa Fe, NM, will explore “The Folk Art of New Mexico & Beyond”.
There will be a symposium at the Museum of International Folk Art, visits to eight collectors' homes and artist's studios, and the annual folk art auction.
right: Sabinita Lopez Ortiz
photo by William Oppenhimer
Collection Ceres Franco
Manuel Mendive Hoyo, ©Pascual Mercé
until November 7, 2017
Jean-Hubert Martin has selected 280 pieces from La Coopérative-collection Cérès Franco along with several others from the Daniel Cordier collection, for the exhibition "L’Internationale des Visionnaires".
La Coopérative-collection Cérès Franco
Route d'Alzonne, 11170 Montolieu, France
www.lacooperative-collectionceresfranco.com
Outsider Art Museum, Amsterdam
August Natterer
until September 24, 2017
"Dubuffet’s List: Masterpieces from the Prinzhorn Collection" at Amsterdam’s Outsider Art Museum offers fresh insights into the encounter between the ideas of psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn and those of the founder of art brut, Jean Dubuffet.
Outsider Art Museum
Hermitage Amsterdam, Amstel 51, 1018 DR Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.outsiderartmuseum.nl
Our summer issue is out now! With some fantastic photographs, this great issue features:
- Houston Art Car Parade celebrates its 30th anniversary
- Leading French outsider Michel Nedjar
- John Michael Kohler Art Center's series of exhibitions of art environments
- International collection Ceres Franco opens in France
- Portraits of artists across America by Ted Degener
- Interview with Curator at New York’s Folk Art Museum, Valerie Rousseau
- Jordan MacLachlan's powerful painted clay figures and groupings
- Plus plenty of Reviews and Raw News
We have just launched a downloadable (PDF) version of the Artists section of our renowned Outsider Art Sourcebook, the indispensable guide to the world of Outsider Art.
Almost 200 pages featuring 180 of the world’s most well known outsider artists in a fully responsive digital version, including artist biographies, references and plenty of images.
Only $15 | £10 | €15
In our special Summer Sale, we are offering a huge 50% off back issues! If you are missing any copies in your RV collection, now is the time to order while we have stock. For a limited time only!
For orders of 10+ issues please email info@rawvision.com for a reduced postage cost.
Featured Artist: Martín Ramírez (1895–1963)
portrait Phyllis Kind Gallery
Martín Ramírez, a Mexican immigrant to the USA, was considered a virtually mute schizophrenic. Hospitalised in 1930, he began to draw only 13 years before his death. His first works were confiscated and destroyed at the end of each day by the hospital authorities but the arrival of a psychology lecturer, Dr Tarmo Pasto, brought encouragement and materials. With Pasto’s help, Ramírez began to create larger, free-scale compositions. He rapidly developed his own distinctive personal style.
courtesy Ricco/Maresca Gallery
An important feature of his work was his use of linear frames and concentric curves encircling a central figure, the contoured lines giving a sense of depth and perspective. Most of the central figures in his artworks are human, often a lone horseman or sometimes a woman, occasionally a train or an animal.
courtesy Ricco/Maresca Gallery
Many theories abound concerning Ramírez’s frames and their meaning: some argue a sexual significance while others stress the importance of Ramírez’s background, his experience of the Mexican landscape and folklore surrounding Emiliano Zapata, Mexico’s revolutionary hero. Ramírez worked on whatever materials came his way, including wrappers, waste paper and magazine pages. He left 340 drawings in total, some as large as 12 ft / 4 m in height.
Martín Ramírez is featured in Raw Vision 55, Raw Vision 77 and in our Outsider Art Sourcebook, currently half price in our summer sale!
This autumn, what was once known as the Santa Monica Museum of Art will re-open as a fully new museum, the Institute for Contemporary Art Los Angeles. The inaugural show, opening September 9 will be the first major L.A. show ever of work by Martin Ramirez.