Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, GA
November 10–11, 2018
One thousand lots of some of the best in self-taught art, outsider art, Southern folk pottery, antique folk art and new discoveries. Live phone, absentee and online bidding available.
View the catalogue online at www.slotinfolkart.com.
Slotin Folk Art Auction
112 E. Shadburn Ave. Buford, Georgia 30518
www.slotinfolkart.com
Clementine Hunter Grandma
Fountain House Gallery Art Auction and Benefit, NY
November 13, 2018
On Tuesday, November 13th, Fountain House Gallery will host its 17th Annual Benefit at Metropolitan West in NYC. The event will feature original art created by Fountain House Gallery artists living and working with serious mental illness. Mad About Art is attended by over 500 guests and supports Fountain House Gallery artists and challenges the stigma associated with mental illness.
Gavin "Dubblex" Alleyne
Galerie Gugging, Austria
until March 10, 2019
Philipp Schöpke was one of the first generations of Gugging artists however his work remained unseen for many years. Ten years since his death, this first solo exhibition presents his life's work for the first time.
Museum Gugging
Am Campus 2, A-3400 Maria Gugging Austria
www.gugging.com
Outsider Artworks at Art Montpellier
Marc Duran
Paul Amar
until November 11, 2018
At Art Montpellier: Foire Méditerranéenne d’Art Contemporain, running this week in Sud de France Arena, La Pop Galerie (Sete) presents "Les Enfants du Paradis", a solo show of the works of Marc Duran. Galerie Pol Lemétais (Saint Sever du Moustier) presents work by Paul Amar, Pierre Amourette, Daniel Goncalves, Joseph Kurhajec, Mina Mond, Ghyslaine and Sylvain Staelens Zefrino, and more.
The Good Luck Gallery, Los Angeles
Aurie Ramirez
until December 16, 2018
The Good Luck Gallery has partnered with Creative Growth Art Center, a progressive art studio in Oakland, CA that serves artists with developmental, mental, and physical disabilities for its latest exhibition. Curated in conjunction with the launch of Creative Growth Magazine: Issue 3, the exhibition includes delicate, fantastical watercolours by Aurie Ramirez; the uncanny anthropomorphic collages of John Hiltunen; and idealised, socially conscious portraits by William Scott.
The Good Luck Gallery
945 Chung Kind Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.thegoodluckgallery.com
Raw Vision 99 Article Preview
DOCUMENTS OF A VICTIM
The “sterelation” drawings of Wilhelm Werner
Authors: Thomas Röske and Maike Rotzoll
The Triumph of Sterelation (“25”), 8.1 x 6.3 in. / 20.5 x 16 cm, Inv. Nr. 8083 (2008) fol. 25 recto
All works were made between 1934 and 1938 using pencil on paper, and are from the Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg
At the end of 2008, the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg, Germany, acquired from a private individual 30 small, numbered drawings dating from between 1934 and 1938 by an inmate of Werneck Asylum in Lower Franconia, Bavaria. In 2010, the Collection
was able to acquire 14 more drawings by this artist from the same source, this time without numbers. They are fascinating not only because of their singular figurative
aesthetics but also because they stand out as examples from a period in German history when hardly any asylum art was kept – and as unique documents on the atrocities of Nazi medicine. The author, Wilhelm Werner, was not known at all at the time, and there is hardly any information about him because his medical file has not
been found. The documents that are available only reveal that he was born on September 18, 1898, admitted to Werneck Asylum in 1919 with the diagnosis of “idiocy” and transferred to an “unknown institution” on October 6, 1940. Other than these scant facts, it was noted that he was Catholic, unmarried and without a profession.
Untitled (“1”), 8.1 x 6.3 in. / 20.5 x 16.0 cm, Inv. Nr. 8083 (2008) fol. 1 recto
We now know that the unknown institution to which Werner was transferred in 1940 was the “Euthanasia” killing asylum Pirna/Sonnenstein. As most “transfers” were
directly gassed on the day of their arrival, we probably also know the date of his death. Werner’s images are drawn on the backs of pages from a thin notebook originally intended as a shop order book. A staff member at the institution took the bundle of drawings with him when he left Werneck in 1938. He showed it to friends and acquaintances many times until his death, fascinated by the explosive nature of its content and the unique compositions of the drawings, so that the pages are worn.
He also punched holes in the pages and reassembled them. These pencil drawings are the only preserved works of art on the sterilisation of patients from the Nazi period, which started in 1934. Until now, only a few poems have remained that represent an artistic attempt to process this invasive operation affecting the core of personality, but no visual works. The drawings also indicate an immense complexity in processing these experiences with the help of original schematic renderings of people and things. For this reason alone, the diagnosis “idiocy” seems puzzling.
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