Mostre, Repubblica Ceca, Praha, 01 October 2013
The first ever exhibition of Japanese art brut in the Czech Republic has been organized in collaboration with the Collection de l’Art Brut, founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, by the originator and champion of the concept of art brut, the artist and collector Jean Dubuffet.
The exhibition presents drawings, sculptures, and embroidery by eight contemporary Japanese artists who are some of the world’s most renowned representatives of art brut.
Art brut, a concept that made it to Japan only recently, remains poorly understood by the public: it is a field that the world of art and the world of social welfare and healthcare have divided amongst themselves – though without any greater mutual understanding. Art brut – which has not suffered from a flood of imitations – continues to attract attention, perhaps because it lets us see the world that disappeared with the adoption of universal “art”. It is in art brut that we still find original creations defying all attempts at classification, works of art bound to our hidden, oft subconscious or ancient histories.
Thanks to the strength of their liberated imagination, these artists have succeeded in using their tools of expression to develop their personal dreams and desires. In their vital energy, novel artistic forms, and new aesthetic language, their works build upon the precious roots of Japanese culture, which past attempts at modernization have long forced into the background.
That artists always use their tools of expression to explore their own rituals, thus breaking out of the confines of tradition. In this context, can we even speak of a “Japanese style”? This exhibition aims to document a uniqueness that exceeds the boundaries of Japanese tastes and presents a way of seeing that originates in ancient times. Whenever an artist succeeds in discovering a new way of seeing the world, the line between “art” and art brut is blurred.
The exhibition presents drawings, sculptures, and embroidery by eight contemporary Japanese artists who are some of the world’s most renowned representatives of art brut.
Art brut, a concept that made it to Japan only recently, remains poorly understood by the public: it is a field that the world of art and the world of social welfare and healthcare have divided amongst themselves – though without any greater mutual understanding. Art brut – which has not suffered from a flood of imitations – continues to attract attention, perhaps because it lets us see the world that disappeared with the adoption of universal “art”. It is in art brut that we still find original creations defying all attempts at classification, works of art bound to our hidden, oft subconscious or ancient histories.
Thanks to the strength of their liberated imagination, these artists have succeeded in using their tools of expression to develop their personal dreams and desires. In their vital energy, novel artistic forms, and new aesthetic language, their works build upon the precious roots of Japanese culture, which past attempts at modernization have long forced into the background.
That artists always use their tools of expression to explore their own rituals, thus breaking out of the confines of tradition. In this context, can we even speak of a “Japanese style”? This exhibition aims to document a uniqueness that exceeds the boundaries of Japanese tastes and presents a way of seeing that originates in ancient times. Whenever an artist succeeds in discovering a new way of seeing the world, the line between “art” and art brut is blurred.
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