Winner of the Mayor's Cup: #26 - "Purple Reign" by Heights High School, Rebecca Bass teacher
Art Car Parade in Houston, TX
Houston’s 30th annual art car parade took place on April 8. Led by a marching band with the Mayor of Houston in the leading car, over 250,000 people lined the streets to witness 250 mobile creations take part in the largest festival of art on wheels yet.
From bizarre individual creations to communal efforts by clubs, schools and colleges, the Parade included all manner of vehicles to delight the crowds. The overall winner this year was Purple Reign, a homage to Prince, made by Heights High School under the direction of dedicated Art Car Teacher Rebecca Bass.
Organised by the Orange Show Centre for Visionary Art, Houston’s annual celebration of art and freedom originated with a few anarchic art car artists and over the years has developed into the city’s largest event.
To see the rest of this year's winners, click here.
Harrod Blank's Camera Van & Alex Harrah's Cigs Kill
Andy Hazell's Boney Whipman
David Best's Nevada Truck
Heights High School's Purple Reign
Texas Wheelbarrow Assn's Metacarskull
Michell Clemon's Green Goblet
W T Burge's Phantoms
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Finnish outsider art at Musée de la Création Franche
April 14 – June 11, 2017
The Musée de la Création Franche in Bègles is exhibiting over 130 works from the collection of Korine and Max E. Ammann. The works presented in the exhibition, titled "Art Brut in Finland", were acquired in ten trips to Finland between 2002 and 2011. They are representative of ITE (self-made) art.
Most of the artists only began to create artwork late in their lives. They are all self-taught, with no academic background and they do not seek advice, support or recognition for their works.
This is the first time such a collection of Finnish outsider art is presented in France, with 133 works by 18 artists.
Musée de la Création Franche
58 Avenue Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 33130 Bègles, France
www.musee-creationfranche.com
Above and below: Ilmari "Imppu" Salminen
Ilmari "Imppu" Salminen (1929–2008), one of the artists exhibited in "Art Brut in Finland", is featured in our Outsider Art Sourcebook.
Imppu was born in Helsinki. Evacuated as a child during wartime to live with relatives on a farm in Metsäkulma, Petäjävesi, he spent most of his life there living in a small cottage, helping to run the farm. From 1986, Imppu ran the farm alone and, becoming obsessed with creating art, turned it into Imppulandia which became one of Finland’s most notable “ITE” art installations. A dense mass of artworks and objects fills the place. Assemblage sculptures and pieces associated with communications such as computer parts, monitors and phones are displayed, along with wartime memorabilia, dummy guns, army clothing and old valuable junk. Imppu created more than 7,000 ink collages with unique symmetrical abstract frameworks drawn with coloured felt-tip pens, surrounding centrally placed photographs, usually of famous people, from magazines. He often wore an old-fashioned police uniform, having dreamt of becoming a policeman. The intuitive artist entertained his audiences with music played on his two-row squeezebox and phone-calls made on his ITE mobiles to world leaders. Beside the front door is a collection of signs, one summing up the philosophy of the place: “Happiness for everyone!”
Read about Impuu in our Sourcebook and in Raw Vision 59.
photo: Veli Granö