Passion and Action - abcd, a Collection of Art Brut

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"Art Brut (in French)" emerged into the art scene 60 years ago in 1945. A term originally coined by the French painter Jean Dubuffet, it refers to a disparate range of artistic assets created by people with no formal art education, who are nevertheless driven by pure creative impulse to produce paintings and other objets d'art.
Many of its works are made by mental patients and people in hallucinatory states. It was the European psychiatrists of the 19th century who firt showed interest in these works. Whereas the initial interest toward the spontaneous creative force of mental patients was more clinical than artistic, physicians of the early 20th century took a deeper aesthetic interest in these works and began seriously collecting and studying them. While the techniques employed may be simple, many are amazingly elaborate, meticulously intricate, and of a deeply introspective nature. The purity and naivety of these works have strongly influenced Paul Klee, Max Ernst and other vanguard artists of the time.
Shiseido first introduced these artworks to the Japanese audience in 1991 and has continued to hold exhibitions of this kind ever since.
This exhibition consists of more than 80 works representing 59 creators originally featured in the "abcd Collection" a non-rpofit organisation set up in Paris. This is a rare collection that not only traces the concept of "Art Brut" from the 19th century until present times, but also envisions how "Art Brut" will further develop in the 21st century.
You will surely enjoy the fathom of this budding art genre that is not only beautiful to the eye and strikingly unique in style, but has the power to take you on a journey through the abyss of the human mind.

Schedule

Sep 27 (Tue) 2005-Nov 27 (Sun) 2005