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Zinelli and Gabritschevsky in New York
March 14 – August 20
The American Folk Art Museum will show two parallel exhibitions: "Eugen Gabritschevsky: Theater of the Imperceptible", with 80 artworks, archival documents and film extracts, and "Carlo Zinelli (1916–1974)" featuring 60 artworks, photographs, audio recordings, film and archival documents.
Carlo Zinelli
Eugen Gabritschevsky
American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023
folkartmuseum.org
Bruno Montpied in Lyon
March 18 – April 8
Works by Bruno Montpied depicting isolated figures will be shown at Galerie Dettinger Mayer in "Les Solitaires".
The works will be shown alongside drawings by Dutch self-taught artist Huub Niessen.
Galerie Dettinger Mayer
4 Place Gailleton
69002 Lyon, France
www.galerie-dettinger-mayer.com
Featured Artist: Sava Sekulic (1902–1989)
Sava Sekulic, a Croat of Serbian ethnicity, lost his beloved father at the age of ten. Abandoned by his mother and later his grandparents, he experienced an isolated childhood. He went on to spend his early life in poverty, working intermittently as a farm labourer, bricklayer and factory worker. With minimal education, Sekulic taught himself to read and write poetry and to paint.
From 1932, he painted as much as he could, but it was only after he retired in 1962 that he could devote himself fully to his painting. Sekulic had a harrowing life and faced continual rejection in his struggle as an artist, but was eventually encouraged by joining an adult education group. All of his pre-war paintings have been destroyed, as were the post-war works he created while working in factories with unsympathetic and malicious managers.
above image: The Man, 1970, courtesy Charlotte Zander Museum
portrait: courtesy Charlotte Zander Museum
His discovery came in 1969, when he exhibited a few of his paintings in the Djuro Salaj Gallery in Belgrade. Although the inspiration for his work came from nature, Sekulic often used the theme of the human form as his central subject. The combination of coloured blocks in muted shades of reds, blues and greens with the intense eyes of faces, results in striking images, produced by an artist whose celebration is much deserved.
The Three, 1986, courtesy Henry Boxer Gallery
Sava Sekulic is featured in the Outsider Art Sourcebook and in Raw Vision 26.
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