African American Southern Art at de Young
Thornton Dial
until April 1, 2018
"Revelations: Art from the African American South" continues at de Young, celebrating the debut of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco major acquisition from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta of 62 works by contemporary African American artists from the Southern US. Featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, and quilts by 22 acclaimed artists, including Thornton Dial, Bessie Harvey, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, Mary T. Smith, Mose Tolliver and Purvis Young.
de Young
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118
deyoung.famsf.org
Musée d'Art Brut de Montpellier
until March 31, 2018
Artworks by Simone Picciotto are exhibited at Musée d'Art Brut de Montpellier. Picciotto creates dreamlike scenes on wood, sometimes in diptychs, fusing paint with found objects.
L’Atelier Musée
1 Rue Beau Séjour, 34000 Montpellier, France
www.atelier-musee.com
Slovenian Outsiders
Borut Holland
until February 11, 2018
"Co+Existence of Four Tales" at Trebnje Gallery of Naive Artists presents contemporary self-taught art by four very different Slovenian artists: Borut Holland, Samo, Darja Štefančič and Janez Štros.
Trebnje Gallery of Naive Artists (Galerija likovnih samorastnikov Trebnje)
Goliev trg 1, 8210 Trebnje, Slovenia
www.ciktrebnje.si
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- Interview with Martine Lusardy, Director of Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
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Featured Artist: Carlo Zinelli (1916–1974)
portrait Collection de l’Art Brut
The Italian painter Carlo Zinelli suffered severe trauma and paranoia following his experiences during the Second World War, and in 1947 he was committed by his family to a psychiatric hospital in Verona. The overcrowded and unpleasant conditions possibly made his condition worse, and were certainly reflected in his first drawings – graffiti scratched in the stone of the hospital walls. When an art studio opened at the hospital in 1957, Zinelli began to paint on a daily basis, as he would for the next 14 years, working rapidly and producing about 3,000 drawings during this period. His early paintings feature rows of almost identical human figures silhouetted against a plain background, perhaps evoking his experience of the hospital exercise yard.
Untitled, 1964, Collection de l’Art Brut, photo Claude Bornand
He also added other forms to his paintings, including boats, birds and beasts, cramming the picture space with motifs of diminishing size according to the gaps remaining. In the 1960s he began using a new technique, laying down areas of wash and adding images of figures, often in sets of four.
Untitled, 1964, Collection de l'Art Brut
In his later works he also added words and letters to his increasingly complex compositions. The closure of the hospital, and Zinelli’s transfer to another institution, led to the virtual cessation of his painting.
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