FROM DUBYFET TO ART BRUTE=The projects realised in collaboration with Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne and illustrates the genesis of the genre commonly known as Art Brut by presenting its creator, Jean Dubuffet, who first coined the term Art Brut to denote spontaneous creations, born from the shadows, sometimes from troubled lives, generally by artists who created art without academic training. Dubuffet spent years researching this artistic expression and its protagonists in the most remote and tormented places, such as the Swiss asylums he visited in 1945. In 1971, Dubuffet donated his collection consisting of 5,000 works and 133 draftsmen to the City of Lausanne. The Collection de l'Art Brut, which opened to the public in 1976, now has more than 70,000 works. Alongside works by the most iconic artists of Art Brut from the Lausanne collection, (Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse Corbaz, Madge Gill), a section curated by Baptiste Brun will display a selection of works by Dubuffet. There will be also a great presence of international artists and Italian representatives of the genre such as Carlo Zinelli

 

Picasso lo straniero 

Palazzo Reale - From September 20th, 2024 to February 2rd, 2025

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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) La Lecture de la lettre [Parigi], 1921 Olio su tela, 184 x 105 cm Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP72 © Succession Picasso - Gestion droits d'auteur Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau

Based on years of new researches, the exhibition changes our view of Picasso by highlighting his status as an eternal foreigner and reflects on how France, in the early twentieth century, was not a heaven for foreigner artists. The topic is relevant: problems of immigration and nationalism are at the forefront of the international debate. An artist ahead of his time both in terms of aesthetics and politics emerges from these studies.

The six sections will be illustrated by around 80 art works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and archive documents from the Musée national Picasso-Paris. The exhibition will therefore follow the aesthetics and political trajectory of the artist, to understand how he shaped his own identity by living in an uneasy position as an eternal stranger.