Delaine Le Bas at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London
until March 7, 2019 Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix presents its first solo exhibition of Delaine Le Bas, a cross-disciplinary artist from a Romany background. Paintings, drawings, texts, embroidery and other works with fabric along with a large scope of found-objects form a series of smaller installations that converge into a large, integral whole that spreads into the gallery space across two floors. The exhibition reflects what was, and is the world of Delaine and Damian Le Bas, her late husband who died unexpectedly on December 9, 2017, and is featured in Raw Vision 100. Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
19 Goulston St, London, E1 7TP
yamamotokeiko.com
Folk Art Museum & Fountain House, NY
until March 29, 2019 "A Kingdom in Pieces" is an off-site community display on the ground floor of the Citigroup Building that features animals from the teaching collection of the American Folk Art Museum and works by the artists of Fountain House Gallery & Studio. At One Court Square (Citigroup Building)
Long Island City, Queens
folkartmuseum.org
fountainhousegallery.org
until February 14, 2019 "Hi, How Are You" presents works by Daniel Johnston and Mikołaj Weaver, who combine surrealistic style with abstract narrative humor, portraying childhood iconography and experimenting with comic book form. Galeria Tak
ul. Mielżyńskiego 27/29, 61-725 Poznań
www.galeriatak.pion.pl
Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster
February 10 – May 19, 2019 "Anonyme Zeichner" presents 500 international drawings, curated by Berlin-based artist Anke
Becker. Kunsthaus Kannen
Alexianer Münster GmbH,
Alexianerweg 9, 48163 Münster, Germany
kunsthaus-kannen.de
anonyme-zeichner.de
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JEAN DUBUFFET:
ANTICULTURAL POSITIONS
I think, not only in the arts, but also in many other fields, an important change is taking place, now, in our time, in the frame of mind of many persons. It seems to me that certain values, which had been considered for a long time as very certain and beyond discussion, begin now to appear doubtful, and even quite false, to many persons. And that, on the other hand, other values, which were neglected, or held in contempt, or even quite unknown, begin to appear of great worth. I have the impression that a complete liquidation of all the ways of thinking, whose sum constituted what has been called Humanism and has been fundamental for our culture since the Renaissance, is now taking place, or, at least, going to take place soon.
I think the increasing knowledge of the thinking of so called primitive peoples, during the past fifty years, has contributed a great deal to this change, and especially the acquaintance with works of art made by those peoples, which have much surprised and interested the occidental public. It seems to me that especially many persons begin to ask themselves if Occident has not many very important things to learn from these savages. May be, in many cases, their solutions and their ways of doing, which first appeared to us very rough, are more clever than ours. It may be ours are the rough ones. It may be refinement, cerebrations, depth of mind, are on their side, and not on ours.
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery. I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. Now I must say I don't mean to say that the Occident lacks these savage values. On the contrary! But I think that the values held up by our culture don't correspond to the real frame of mind of Occident. I think that the culture of Occident is a coat which does not fit him; which, in any case, doesn't fit him any more. This culture drifts further and further from daily life. It is confined to certain small and dead circles, as a culture of mandarins. It no longer has real and living roots. For myself, I aim for an art which would be in immediate connection with daily life, an art which would start from this daily life, and which
would be a very direct and very sincere expression of our real life and our real moods. Read the rest of Dubuffet's talk in Raw Vision 100, out now!
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