Alain Bourbonnais sur son canard turbulé
© La Fabuloserie
The amazing destiny
of the Bourbonnais
The Fabuloserie Collection
10.02 >27.05.2012
Alain Bourbonnais and :
François Baloffi – Michèle Burles –Mario Chichorro – Philippe Dereux – Sylvette Galmiche – Albert Geisel – Jaber - Juva- Solange Lantier- Simone le Carré Galimard – Francis Marshall – François Monchatre – Jano Pesset – Giovanni Battista Podesta – Emile Ratier– Albert Sallé – Abel Sécuteur - Tourlonias - Pépé Vignes – Jephan de Villiers.
In the world of outsider art, the Fabuloserie is one of the places that cannot be ignored. Its history is linked to that of Alain Bourbonnais (1925-1988). This young architect bought a property in Dicy, in the Yonne department, where he started creating a very personal body of work combining painting, sculpture, and assemblage. He also collected a large number of works closely linked to popular art: unusual objects made by men “who didn’t come out of art school but rather came from factories and fields”.
Visiting the art brut collection in Paris and meeting Jean Dubuffet came as a real choc to Bourbonnais. In 1983, Bourbonnais created, with the help of his wife Caroline, what would become the amazing Fabuloserie, a place where his own creations, together with objects from his collection, are displayed within a very personal structure and scenography.
The exhibition will introduce works of Alain Bourbonnais and of artists from the Fabuloserie in a scenography that closely reflects the spirit of this « strong citadel of the Outsider ».
The « coup de Coeur » room will be dedicated to the artist Giovanni Battista Podesta.
Pascal Duquenne,
coll. Créahm Liège
EXTRA-MUROS
Visions of the 8th day
17.4 > 26.5.2012
Centrum Wallonië - Brussel, Parijs
Dominique Bottemanne, Antonio Dalle Valle, Michel Dave, Heide De Bruyne, Serge Delaunay, Suzanne De Slaeve, Hilde d’Hondt, Paul Duhem, Pascal Duquenne, Jill Gallieni, Martha Grunenwaldt, Oscar Haus, Jean-Marie Heyligen, Jacques Lennep, Juanma Gonzalez, Wolfgang Marx, André Prues, Fernanda Reyns, Geert Van Steelant, Pascale Vincke.
On the occasion of the carte blanche to Jaco Van Dormael, the Wallonie-Bruxelles Centre has offered us to collaborate with the film director in order to commission an exhibition.
In addition to the works from his personal collection which accompany him and nurture his creative process, he has been invited to discover, in a spirit of decompartmentalization, the works from the art & marges museum’s collection.
The exhibition proposes the diverse perspectives of Jaco Van Dormael and Carine Fol, based on their artistic sensitivity and their will to transcend the boundaries of normality and abnormality in art.
The film director has focussed on dematerialization, the vibration of matter, compulsive body language, whereas the museum curator retraces the history of art from the fringes through emblematic projects and artists at the art & marges museum.
The setting up of a dialogue between all these works leads to an intense audiovisual experience, carrying the visitor to the heart of artistic creation.
Double Urban Dance :
Messieurs Delmotte with Arnaud Rogard,
coll. Messieurs Delmotte – 2010
EXTRA-MUROS
Identities TOO
27.4 > 10.7.2012
De Halle –Kunsthuis Yellow Art en OPZ - Gasthuis Museum
Ronny Delrue, Sieberen De Vries, Curzio di Giovanni, Dominique Goblet, Jean-Pol Godard, Robert Garcet, Arnulf Rainer, Yves Jules, Théo, Messieurs Delmotte, Jacques Lennep, Inga Moijson, Peter Verleysen, Emil Siemeister, Lieven Nollet, Marie Ange, Caroline Lamarche, Paul Blockx.
Following a first exhibition on the theme of identity called “Identities I” (2007) and which mainly revolved around specific identities, Carine Fol has been invited for a second time to act as commissioner. This time, the exhibition, which will be shown in several venues in the town of Geel, proposes a manifold approach to shared identities through:
1. Portraits by outsider artists: Yves-Jules, Curzio di Giovanni, Sieberen
De Vries;
2. Works by professional artists who demonstrate a fascination with outsider artists: Jacques Lennep (Robert Garcet), Emil Siemeister (Tardieu), and Arnulf Rainer;
3. Cross portraits by Dominique Goblet and her daughter Nikita, Ronny Delrue, and Christine Remacle;
4. Collaboration between artists taking part in the creative workshop of the psychiatric hospital and Messrs Delmotte, Marie-Ange and the photographer Lieven Nollet, and portraits of outsider artists discovered by Art & Marges made by Gaël Turine
The writer Caroline Lamarche will also take part in this project by writing texts at the various exhibition venues.
Exhibition organised with the support of the Osterreichisches Kulturforum and works loaned by the LAM.
Catalogue produced with the support of Lundbeck.
