Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
until April 1, 2018
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present their major acquisition from Souls Grown Deep Foundation. "Revelations: Art from the African American South" features 62 works by contemporary African American artists from the Southern United States, including Thornton Dial, Lonnie Holley, Mary T. Smith, Mose Tolliver and Purvis Young.
DE YOUNG MUSEUM
Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA 94118
www.famsf.org
Mary T. Smith
Treger Saint Silvestre Collection Launches New Website
Treger Saint Silvestre Collection has launched a new website: tsscollection.org. The collection of Richard Treger and Antonio Saint Silvestre comprises hundreds of works, mostly art brut. The website features current exhibitions, news, the history of the collection and also biographies of all of the artists and their masterpieces.
Until October 1st at Oliva Creative Factory, curated by Antonia Gaeta, "The Golden Ratio Laws" includes works by Madge Gill, Eugene von Bruenchenhein, Scottie Wilson, Dwight Mackintosh, George Widener, Josef Hofer, Royal Robertson, Beverly Baker and Adolf Wölfli.
Olive Creative Factory
R. da Fundição, 3700-119 São João da Madeira, Portugal
www.olivacreativefactory.com
Monika Svahn at Inuti Galleri, Stockholm
August 15 – September 1, 2017
An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Monika Svahn will be shown at Inuti Galleri, coinciding with Stockholm Culture Festival.
Inuti Galleri
Primusgatan 114, 112 67 Stockholm, Sweden
www.inuti.se
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.
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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!
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Featured Artist: Adolphe Julien Fouré
Les Rochers Sculptés, Rothéneuf
Saint-Malo, Brittany, France
above and below: photos by Deidi von Schaewen
The country priest Adolphe Julien Fouré (1839–1910) started to chisel figures into the granite coastline at Rothéneuf, Brittany, following an illness which left him partially paralysed and mute. He resigned his church position, and for 25 years devoted himself to his creative work. More than 300 sculptures were produced, across an area of 6,400 square ft / 600 square m). Some of the carvings are free-standing, while others follow the natural contours of the shore.
The sculptures narrate the daring exploits of the Rothéneufs, a notorious family of local pirates, as well as devotional scenes, sea monsters and other tableaux. Fouré also made wooden sculptures of birds, animals, figures and totems, a collection he exhibited in a small space known as the “Diabolic Gallery”. The gallery was burned down during bombing in World War II and only a handful of his wood creations survived. Fouré's site is featured in our Outsider Art Sourcebook which is currently half price.
Les Rochers Sculptés Under Threat
Fouré’s coastline rock carvings are still in evidence but are beginning to erode. Despite the work of Les amis de l'œuvre de l'Abbé Fouré (Friends of the work of Abbot Fouré), the environment in danger and requires immediate attention in order to be preserved. The organisation wants to alert the Minister of Culture about the worrying state of the site by compiling a letter with signatures of specialists in art brut from around the world, such as gallery directors, curators, journalists, artists, collectors, art critics, editors and photographers. To show your support, please email your name and position to joelle.jouneau@orange.fr.