The fourth Art Brut Biennial invites visitors to further discover the Lausanne museum’s wealth of holdings, with an eye to the presence of theatre in Art Brut. Works by a selection of twenty-eight creators are presented through costumes, sculptures, drawings, paintings, photographs and cutouts.
This solo show features works by the historic and leading Art Brut creator Carlo Zinelli (1916-1974), aka “Carlo.” Jean Dubuffet acquired several of the latter’s pieces as of 1963, thanks to Carlo’s psychiatrist Vittorino Andreoli, the first person to champion Carlo’s artistic output. Today, the Collection de l’Art Brut holdings include ninety-nine of his pieces, enabling this public institution to boast the greatest number of that Italian creator’s works in museological possession. Furthermore, since Carlo often painted and drew on both sides of his supports — indeed, doing so consistently as of 1962 — this body of works comes to one hundred and sixty gouaches, including some of his rare collages.