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écrits d’art brut

Sandro Ricaldone

ÉCRITS D’ART BRUT
Wild Expression & Thought
Curator: Lucienne Peiry
Scenography: Sarah Nedir
Museum Tinguely
October 20, 2021–January 23, 2022

Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Giovanni Bosco, Marie Lieb, Heinrich Anton Müller, Fernando Nannetti, Laure Pigeon, Giovanni Battista Podestà, Armand Schulthess, Constance Schwartzlin-Berberat, Charles Steffen, Pascal Vonlanthen, Adolf Wölfli und Carlo Zinelli.

A major group exhibition to be held at Museum Tinguely from October 20, 2021 to January 23, 2022 will bring together the myriad writings of 13 international Art Brut authors. These writers, most of whom lived or live as hermits or outcasts on the fringes of society, create their own world without even knowing that what they are doing belongs to the realm of the fine arts. They leave their mark on all sorts of supports, including embroidered cloth and painted walls. The works from a dozen museums as well as public and private collections in Europe and Brazil are being shown together here in Switzerland for the first time. The documentary films and photographs flanking them portray these unusual creators in their own homes or at their place of work and so invite visitors to immerse themselves in worlds that were never intended for public consumption.

Declarations of love, letters of rage, poems, prayers, erotic messages, pleas, diary-like notes, and utopian narratives: The in many cases little-known writings of Art Brut creators astonish and fascinate. Mostly written behind closed doors, in silence and in secret, they often bear no address or were intended for a dreamlike or spiritual addressee.

The texts, written in peculiar calligraphy, scribbled, or hastily noted, at times embroidered or fervently carved in stone, are often supplemented with pictures or drawings. They reveal an astonishing creativity, spring from an urgent need to express oneself, and represent a kind of silent resistance.

Writing encourages introspection and becomes an important creative resource, at times paving the way for a search for identity or the invention of another life, and at other times enabling the construction of a new world or the reshaping of the cosmos. Slips and sheets of paper, booklets and volumes, body decoration and textiles become carriers of extravagant personal inscriptions, poetic and concrete at the same time. They support the persistent search of their authors: the search for the essence of things and words.

The thirteen authors—eccentric diarists, letter writers, or utopian authors, discovered by Jean Dubuffet or more recently—are free of any desire for publicity. They are imaginative and uninhibited in their approach and playful in their use of syntax, grammar, and orthography. Instead of paying attention to conventions and norms, Adolf Wölfli, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, and Giovanni Battista Podestà—whom Jean Tinguely particularly appreciated—preferred to deal with new linguistic creations, semantic games, or graphic labyrinths of words, sentences, and signs. Line by line, they shake up and defy rules, since their intention is neither to communicate nor to exchange information. Instead, thoughts take their course; ideas, often confusing, form, and their imagination seems to surprise the writers themselves. Writing takes on a performative value.

The words dance across the paper, fabric, wall, or floor, opening up surprising visual and pictorial dimensions. By bringing the letters to life and fusing word and image, the exhibits reveal a poignant and inspiring poetry.

The exhibition, presented for the first time, brings together works from a dozen museums, as well as public and private collections in various European countries and Brazil. Documentary films and photographs invite the public to immerse themselves in the artists’ cosmoses and to experience them in their living and working environments. The exhibition is accompanied by a book by Lucienne Peiry with numerous texts and roughly 150 illustrations (French edition: Paris, Le Seuil, ISBN 978-2-02-144768-2).

Image: Giovanni Bosco, Mural painting in Castellammare del Golfo (Sicily), 2008
© Associazione Outsider Art Giovanni Bosco, Castellammare del Golfo
Photo: Lucienne Peiry; Archives de la Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne.

vinicio berti: continua la mostra alla galleria d’arte moderna in via francesco crispi

VINICIO BERTI, ANTAGONISTA CONTINUO
http://www.galleriaartemodernaroma.it/mostra-evento/vinicio-berti-antagonista-continuo

Presso la Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Via Francesco Crispi 24), a Roma, continua fino al 12 dicembre la mostra dedicata al famoso astrattista Vinicio Berti (1921-2021) per il Centenario della nascita e a trent’anni dalla sua scomparsa (1991).

La mostra cerca di ricostruire l’evoluzione pittorica del fondatore del gruppo dell’Astrattismo classico (1950), un gruppo rivoluzionario per il periodo sia per l’attività artistica che per quella delle teorie estetiche che sfociarono indissolubilmente nel politico. Esplicito il Manifesto del gruppo stesso che propone, come nuovo indirizzo per l’arte contemporanea, la fine della distruzione, l’inizio della costruzione. Scelta mantenuta coerentemente senza scendere a tentazioni informali neodadaiste o  concettuali, anticipando quindi l’arte e le teorie del “MAC” di Milano e di  “Forma 1” a Roma, con i quali Berti ha sempre mantenuto importanti rapporti, come con Gillo Dorfles e a Roma con Perilli e Dorazio.

In mostra dipinti ma anche documentazione d’archivio e fotografica inedita dell’opera di Vinicio Berti che ha proprio l’astrattismo come dominante, oltre l’uso del colore come atto politico. Del resto Berti si muoveva in ambiente marxista che spesso viene fuori proprio dalla sua pittura così come dai suoi scritti. Una sezione della mostra è invece dedicata al fumetto di Berti e ai suoi personaggi molto conosciuti nel mondo, grazie anche alla figura base di Pinocchio che lo ho, come lo stesso artista affermava, “perseguitato” per tutta la vita.

In mostra, da novembre 2021, anche il documentario d’arte, recuperato e ri-digitalizzato, VINICIO BERTI 70 ANNI DI PITTURA CONTRO (11’22”, colore, 2002), prodotto dall’Archivio Vinicio Berti – Firenze, dal Centro Internazionale Antinoo per l’arte – Centro Documentazione Marguerite Yourcenar, con il rimixaggio di alcune importanti interviste dell’artista.

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anna oberto: “mémoires liquides…”

ANNA OBERTO
Mémoires liquides
pierres et cristaux
C/E Contemporary, 2021
presentazione del volume @
Etherea Art Gallery
Spazio 46 – Palazzo Ducale – Genova
venerdì 22 ottobre 2021, ore 17:30

Venerdì 22 ottobre 2021 alle 17:30 in occasione della mostra personale di Anna Oberto, Mitobiografia. Scritture d’Amore. Scritture di Luce. À mesure de femme a cura di Virginia Monteverde e Viana Conti, allestita all’Etherea Art Gallery a Palazzo Ducale a Genova, sarà presentato il catalogo curato da CE Contemporary Mémoires liquides pierres et cristaux – écritures à mesure de femme.
Intervengono: Viana Conti e Christine Enrile.

Mémoires liquides pierres et cristaux – écritures à mesure de femme è il prezioso attestato, curato da CE Contemporary e pubblicato nel mese di gennaio 2021, della mostra di Anna Oberto tenutasi nel 2017 ad Andora nelle sale del Museo Mineralogico Luciano Dabroi di Palazzo Tagliaferro.
L’artista, da sempre impegnata nella ricerca verbo-visuale, nella scrittura al femminile, nella performance, nel cinema sperimentale, figura internazionale nel contesto delle avanguardie e tuttora propositiva sull’area dei linguaggi e dei metalinguaggi coinvolta dai quarzi dai riflessi iridati e dai fantasmagorici giochi di luce e ombre che caratterizzano il Museo Dabroi, ha disseminato per l’occasione le sale di scritture, segni, tessiture e intrecci di fili rossi seducendo i visitatori.
Il volume, nato per documentare le installazioni e le opere presenti nella rassegna, contiene inoltre gli importanti contributi critici di Adriano Accattino, Viana Conti, Christine Enrile, Giuseppe Garrera, Anna Oberto, Raffaele Perrotta e Sandro Ricaldone.
Nel libro, inoltre, viene riportato un estratto dall’Enciclopedia Lessico Politico delle Donne, volume 6, Edizioni Gulliver, Milano 1979, alla voce Poesia Visiva compilata dalla stessa artista.

Etherea Art Gallery
Palazzo Ducale, piazza Matteotti 9, Genova – info@ethereaartgallery.it

l’eccellenza letteraria. christian bök, per esempio

Per esempio, esistono autori così (anche se, va detto, di autori così ne esiste uno solo) e nonostante ciò in Italia i bloggherini si interrogano sulla instapoetry o fanno le classifiche, e le foto ai cani. Così va.

Suvvia, seguite slowforward, vi dice qualcosa di diverso:

Christian Bök is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and he is the author of Eunoia — a bestseller, which has gone on to win the Griffin Poetry Prize. Bök is an avant-garde poet of global renown, earning his repute as one of the original founders of the literary movement called Conceptualism (a poetic school made famous, in part, by the activities of the poet, Kenneth Goldsmith, the proprietor of UbuWeb). Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has earned many accolades for his virtuoso recitals of ‘sound-poems’ (particularly Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters) — and during his career he has performed his poetry at more than 650 venues around the world. Bök is on the verge of finishing his current project, entitled The Xenotext (a work that requires him to engineer a bacterium so that its DNA might become not only a durable archive that stores a poem for eternity, but also an operant machine that writes a poem in response). Bök has displayed examples of his artworks at dozens of galleries, including The Power Plant in Toronto, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. He resides, as an artist, in Melbourne.

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etel adnan with charles bernstein

from The Brooklyn Rail

Join legendary poets and artists Etel Adnan and Charles Bernstein for a broadcast conversation that was also included as a feature conversation in the Rail’s February 2021 issue.

Learn more: https://brooklynrail.org/events/2021/02/23/etel-adnan-with-charles-bernstein

Read the interview: https://brooklynrail.org/2021/02/art/ETEL-ADNAN-with-Charles-Bernstein

Poet, essayist, and painter Etel Adnan was born on February 24, 1925, in Beirut, Lebanon. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, as well as at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University. She has written more than a dozen books of poetry, fiction, and essays, including Time (Nightboat Books, 2019), translated by Sarah Riggs and winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, Surge (Nightboat Books, 2018), and Night (Nightboat Books, 2016). Her poetry collection Sea and Fog (Nightboat, 2012) won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and the California Book Award. She is also the recipient of a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award and in 2014 was named a member of the Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest cultural honors.

Charles Bernstein is a poet and a scholar. He is a foundational member and leading practitioner of Language poetry. Between 1978-1981, with fellow poet Bruce Andrews, he published L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E magazine, which became a forum for writing that blurred, confused, and denied the boundary between poetry and critical writing about poetry. Since the 1970s Bernstein has published dozens of books, including poetry and essay collections, pamphlets, translations, collaborations, and libretti. His poetry has been widely anthologized and translated, and it has appeared in over 500 magazines and periodicals. His most recent book is Near/Miss, from the University of Chicago Press.

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