Rebecca A. Hoffberger Honoured:
AFAM's 2017 Visionary Award
New York's American Folk Art Museum has honoured Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, the founder, director, and principal curator of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, with its 2017 Visionary Award. Celebrated for her imaginative approaches to arts administration and exhibition-making, and her dedication to the work and ideas of self-taught artists, Hoffberger noted that "using their art to tell human stories has the power to resonate and heal." AFAM's award is supported by the museum's longtime trustee and benefactor, Audrey B. Heckler.
AFAM trustee Audrey B. Heckler and 2017 Visionary Award honouree Rebecca Alban Hoffberger
Audrey B. Heckler, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger and AFAM executive director Anne-Imelda Radice
Pop-Up Outsider Art Museum in Rotterdam
through December 2017
A new Outsider Art Museum has just opened in Rotterdam. An initiative of Stichting Cultureel Rijk (www.cultureelrijk.nl), The Pop-Up Grow Big Museum is a temporary art venue showing more than 20 international outsider artists including Giovanni Galli, Gerard van Lankveld and Rudolf Bodmeier.
Each week works by new artists is added and there are crossovers with other art forms such as photography, music, and poetry and philosophy. The museum is open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 12.00–6.00 pm and entry is free.
Venue: Westewagenstraat 68, Rotterdam, across the back side of the warehouse Hudson’s Bay.
Galerie Polysémie, Marseille
November 2 – December 22, 2017
"Libérez les forces créatives" features sculptures by French self-taught artist Pascal Verbena alongside works by Georges Bru, Ceccarelli, Monique Cèliere, Yvan Daumas, Fred Deux, Gilbert Pastor, Claude Langlois and Louis Pons.
Galerie Polysémie
12 rue de la Cathédrale 13002
Marseille, France
polysemie.com
Pascal Verbena
Gustav Mesmer Photographic Show in Berlin
until December 2, 2017
“An Encounter with Gustav Mesmer - Photographs by Nicole Becker” at Atelier Kirchner presents photographs of the German outsider artist taken in 1988 in his workshop in Buttenhausen, Schwäbischen Alb, where he spent his last 30 years.
Atelier Kirchner, Grunewaldstraße 15, 10823 Berlin, Erster Hof, Seitenflügel links, Parterre
U7 Eisenacherstraße
www.andrekirchner.de
Paul Duchein in Montpellier
until December 31, 2017
"Paul Duchein: Les Théâtres de l'Imaginaire" at Musée d'Art Brut in Montpellier is an opportunity to see the French artist's curious "dream boxes", made from items found at flea markets.
Musée d'Art Brut
1 Rue Séjour, 34000 Montpellier, France
www.atelier-musee.com
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- The new ICA LA shows retrospective of one of Martin Ramirez
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- Evelyn Reyes' reverential and minimal interpretations of every day objects
- Large exhibition at Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, shows powerful work from Serbia
- Giant scrap-metal sculptures in North Dakota
- Frank Bruno's stunning visionary apocalyptic paintings
- Riera Studio, independent art space in Havana, Cuba
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Featured Artist: Mose Tolliver (1919–2006)
portrait by Gerald Jones, William Arnett Collection
Mose Ernest Tolliver lived in rural Alabama for his whole life. He worked as a farmer and labourer until an accident damaged his legs and left him unable to walk without crutches. He then took up painting, working by balancing a board on his knees. Tolliver’s colourful poster-like style appears to be relatively simple: in many of his works flat images, often with round heads and simple stylised features, dominate the composition. The curves of his organic forms give a sense of rhythm to the painting.
courtesy William S. Arnett Collection of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation
He sometimes finished off a picture by adding a “frame”, consisting of a band of colour around the edge. Tolliver’s subjects included portraits of himself and his wife, anthropomorphic birds and animals, vegetables and plant life. He also painted sexualised images of women resting on pointed objects he referred to as “scooters” or “exercising bicycles”. Tolliver’s family initially provided him with scraps of wood they found in alleyways and on the street, but later he painted on plywood using house paint. He was a prolific, fast-working artist who finished each artwork with a distinctive signature, “MOSET”, including a backward “S”. His daughter, Annie Tolliver, also paints in a similar but more simple vein.
courtesy Ricco/Maresca Gallery
Mose Tolliver is featued in our Outsider Art Sourcebook (currently half price) and in Raw Vision 12 (available as PDF only).