Jean Dubuffet Photographic Album
Between 1945 and 1970, Jean Dubuffet began to document his art brut collection with photographs of the works. He also photographed other works that were of interest to him. He collated all of these photographs in a series of 14 albums which have been preserved since 1976 in the archives of the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne.
Under the direction of Collection de l'Art Brut director Sarah Lombardi, in collaboration with Vincent Monod, this 824 page edition of Dubuffet's photographic albums includes texts by Baptiste Brun, Nicolas Garnier, Karoline Lewandowska, Jean-Hubert Martin, Jérôme Pierrat and Michel Thévoz. Priced at CHF 150, it is available to purchase at www.artbrut.ch.
The Good Luck Gallery, CA
Dru McKenzie
until August 27, 2017
For its 2017 Summer group show "Summery Appeal", The Good Luck Gallery has invited artist/critic/curator Doug Harvey to assemble a body of work from several leading Southern California Progressive Art Studios, including Exceptional Children’s Foundation, First Street Gallery Art Center, and HOPE Center for the Arts. Progressive Art Studios are nonprofit programs designed to allow artists with developmental disabilities to create art for exhibition and sale within a supported environment.
The Good Luck Gallery
945 Chung King Road (Chinatown), Los Angeles, CA 90012
www.thegoodluckgallery.com
Fouré's Les Rochers Sculptés, Rothéneuf, in Danger
Deidi von Schaewen
Despite the hard work of Les amis de l'œuvre de l'Abbé Fouré (Friends of the work of Abbot Fouré), the carved rocks on the coastline at Rothéneuf, Brittany, are in danger. Created by the country priest Adolphe Julien Fouré (1839–1910), the granite figures are eroding and require 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 Europe and the United States, 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.
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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Featured Artist: Ionel Talpazan (1955 – 2015)
portrait Aarne Anton
A self-taught visionary artist from Romania, Ionel Talpazan lived in New York where he filled his small studio apartment with art inspired by his visions of UFOs. Having filled the space with huge brightly coloured canvases, sculptures, and large diagrams revealing the inner working of UFOs, Talpazan estimated he had created more than 1,000 works.
UFO: Art & Science, 2002, Henry Boxer Gallery
At the age of seven Talpazan ran away from his foster parents, having had a foster mother who drank heavily and used to beat him. Whilst hiding in a ditch beneath a metal grate in a field, he saw an otherworldly blue light surround him. He was completely altered by this incident, feeling certain afterwards that the experience had been associated with a UFO, and by the age of twelve he had made hundreds of UFO drawings.
UFO, 2002, Henry Boxer Gallery
Talpazan often wrote his thoughts and theories around his images, crowding the surface with text written in Romanian, English and his own hybrid language. Depicting cosmic wonder and freedom allowed him to escape the difficulties of his life. Talpazan viewed his work as a combination of art and science and he dreamt of sharing his visions and theories with NASA scientists and government officials, in order to explore and develop UFO technologies.
Talpazan is featured in our Outsider Art Sourcebook and in Raw Vision 45, both currently half price!