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a b c d 11 years of activity


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a b c d in few words

abcd was born in 1999 at the initiative of Bruno Decharme.

The approach of Bruno Decharme is part of a global project, that of a collector and a lmmaker, but above

all, of the founder of a collection open to the public.

Around the rst four letters of the alphabet (abcd - ar t brut connaissance diffusion), bringing together view-

points as diverse as those of writers, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, historians of art, philosophers, and amateur

lovers, a research group came to being.

A think-tank whose work takes shape through publications, exhibitions, lms and eld investigation.

abcd foundation has international scope through its antenna in Prague founded in 2003 but also thanks to

a number of exhibitions abroad.

In recent years abcd has organized exhibitions around the world and participated in many events.

The opening of a gallery - abcd the gallery - is the logical culmination of this journey. abcd the gallery is a

non-commercial exhibition space dedicated to ar t brut..


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a b c d the structure(art brut connaissance & diffusion) association governed by the law 1901

president : Barbara Safarova

president : Terezie Zemankova

abcdPrague

abcd mission isto promote the awareness of art brut to a wide audience, both in France and abroad,

by organizing events and exhibitions related to this main objective,

by publishing books and other editorial supports,

by producing lms.

abcdParis


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Begun in the eighties, abcd collection brings together the main creators of ar t brut from the mid-nineteenth

century to today. It contains works previously included in psychiatric collections, the so-called spiritualist

works and folk art that falls outside of traditional norms. abcd collection echoes the work of precursors

such as the psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn, painters like Max Ernst or writers like Andre Breton; most of all, it

has been inspired by Jean Dubuffets concept of art brut. Part of the collection consists of works by great

historical artists, such as Aloise Corbaz, Henry Darger, Auguste Forestier, Martin Ramirez, Bill Traylor, Jeanne

Tripier, Adolf Wli and others. There is also a number of works by contemporary art brut creators. Thanks

to its research abroad, with works coming for example from Southern America, USA, Asia or Russia, abcd

collection offers a unique panorama of art brut.

a b c d the collection


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Who are the artists whose works represent for us a sort of artistic purity, these witnesses of another world,

object of our dreams and fears? They are strangers to the culture of ne arts, to the places and rituals that

constitute it: schools, fairs, galleries, museums, institutions, communication media. They are unaware of current

stylistic inuences, labels and technical processes in use. They often live in isolation of the countryside, in the

anonymity of cities or in solitude that could be called autistic. If their territory is that of the common man,

in the words of Jean Dubuffet, one might as well say that their destiny is unusual, since a strange necessity

propels them into a fever of creation, which absorbs them entirely. Indifferent to the contact of the public , they

are unconcerned about the fate of their works. Sometimes they happen to be discovered after their death.

Art brut, as dened by its discoverer, cannot be confused with other forms of artistic expression characte-

rized by cer tain spontaneity: folk ar t, naive, primitive, childrens drawings, art singulier etc.

a b c d and art brut


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a b c d the galleryThe exhibition strategy follows two directions. The rst concerns the organization and participation in exhi-

bitions in France and abroad. The second relates to those organized by abcd in the abcd galler y, opened

on March 12th, 2005.

the program

Exhibitions devoted to art brut or its relationship with modern and contemporary art

Monographic and thematic exhibitions

Exhibitions that present the abcd collection

Exhibitions of other collections

Events related to crits brutsand lectures on art brut


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a b c d the exhibitions

1996

rst exhibition of the collection

7 November - 31 January

galerie Messine Thomas le Guillou / Paris, France

2000

folies de la beaut7 July - 15 October

Muse Campredon / Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France

2001

series of exhibitions in the US: abcd, a collection

of art brut

20 January - 30 June

American Folk Art Museum / New York, NY, USA

abcd, a collection of art brut

11 November - 10 February

John Michael Kohler Art Center / Sheboygan, Michigan, USA

2002

Fernand Desmoulin. Spiritualist Drawings.

28 February - 6 April

galerie Messine Thomas le Guillou / Paris, France

continuation of exhibitions in the US: abcd, a col-

lection of art brut

27 April - 3 August

High Museum of Art / Atlanta, Georgia, USA

13 November - 28 January

Menello Museum of American Folk Art / Orlando, Florida, USA


20 June - 31 August

Saint-Alban, France

2003


4 - 9 April

Kunstmesse Cologne, Germany

continuation of exhibitions in the US: abcd, a col-

lection of art brut

26 April - 29 June

Chicago Cultural Center / Chicago, Illinois, USA

Alexander Lobanov and Art Brut in Russia

15 May - 27 Junegalerie Messine Thomas le Guillou / Paris, France

masterpieces of abcd collection

27 June - 21 September

Contemporary Folk Art Museum of Kaustinen (I T E) / Kaus-

tinen, Finlande

masterpieces of abcd collection

9 October - 9 November

Tallinn Art Hall / Tallinn, Estonie

art brut, collection abcd

11 October - 23 November

Salle Chemellier / Angers, France

2004

abcd, une collection dart brut

25 February 10 March

Municipal Museum / Athens, Greece

corps perdu. abcd, une collection dart brut

abcd, une collection dart brut

29 April - 26 September

Pavillon des Arts / Paris, France

2005

le chant des sirnes, lautomatisme dans lart

brut.12 March - 11 July

abcd la galerie / Montreuil, France

abcd, a collection of art brut : passion and action

27 September - 27 November

Shiseido Foundation / Tokyo, Japon

2006

Janko Domsic and Zdenek Kosek. Creators of the

Sky and the Earth

Janko Domsic and Zdenek Kosek. Creators of the Sky and the

Earth

art brut, collection abcd14 June - 9 September

City Gallery Prague / Prague, Czech Republic

Janko Domsic and Zdenek Kosek. Creators of the

Sky and the Earth

15 June - 9 September

French Institute of Prague / Prague, Czech Republic

2007

Montreuil California. 5 Contemporary Creators

from Creative Growth Art Center

3 May - 8 July


2008

Brut Alors! Season 1. Mystery Enigma

Nonsense

15 September 2007 29 June 2008


Brut alors ! saison 2

20 September 21 December


2009

Anatomia Metamorphosis / Anna Zemankova &

Lubos Plny10 October 29 November


2010

Anatomia Metamorphosis / Fernand Desmoulin,

Dwight Mackintosh & Lubos Plny

11 March 9 April

French Institute of Istanbul / Istanbul, Turkey

Institut Franais dIstanbul / Istanbul, Turquie

The World Inside Out. Art Brut from the abcd

Collection, Paris.

21 May 12 September

Museum Dr. Guislain / Ghent, Belgium

Art Brut. Anatomia Metamorphosis. Lubos Plny,

Anna Zemankova, Frantisek Dymacek

15 June 30 September

Museum Montanelli / Prague, Czech Republic


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a b c d participation in other exhibitions

Sraphine, Alose, Boix-Vives: aux frontires de lart naf et de lart brut

Muse International dArt Naf Anatole Jakovsky, Nice, France, 4 July - 30 September 1998.

Johann Hauser. Im Hinterland des Herzens

Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria, 25 February 29 April 2001.

Ren Drouin, Le Spectateur des Arts

Muse de lAbbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables dOlonne, France, 7 July 7 October 2001.

Metamorphosis: The Fiber Art of Judith Scott

Collection de lArt brut, Lausanne, Swtizerland, 11 October 2001 3 February 2002.

Univers Gaudi

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, 31 May 8 September 2002,

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Soa, Madrid, Spain, 15 October 2002 6 January 2003.

Das endlose Rtsel. Dali und die Magier der Mehrdeutigkeit

Stiftung museum kunstpalast, Dsseldorf, Germany, 22 February 9 June 2003.

Trajectoires du rve. Du romantisme au surralisme

Pavillon des Arts, Paris, France, 7 March 7 June 2003.

The Other Side

Municipal Museum, Athens, Greece, 25 February 10 March 2004.

Raw Vision. Equal Rights to Creativity. An Exhibition of Outsider Art

Mexico Gallery, London, Great Britain, 7 May 3 June 2004.

Anselme Boix-Vives

Muse Hebert, Grenoble, France, 12 June 31 October 2004.

Create and Be Recognized. Photography on the EdgeThe Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA, 23 October 2004 9 January 2005,

George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA, 22 January 10 April 2005.

Lart des fous. La cl des champsGalerie Les yeux fertiles, Paris, France, 17 December 2004 12 February 2005.

Im Rausch der Kunst - Jean Dubuffet und Art BrutKunstpalast, Dsseldorf, Germany, 19 February 29 May 2005.Lart spiriteCollection de lArt Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, 18 March 5 June 2005.

Ecriture en dlireHalle Saint-Pierre, Paris, France, 21 March 31 July 2005.

Univers cachsMuseum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 26 March 4 September 2005.

Dubuffet et lart brutMuse dart moderne Lille Mtropole, Villeneuve dAscq, France, 15 October 2005 29 January 2006.

Unica ZrnHalle Saint-Pierre, Paris, France, 25 September 2006 - 4 March 2007.


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Martin Ramirez

American Folk Art Museum, New York, USA, 23 January - 13 May 2007.

Aleksander Lobanov

Collection de lArt Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, 16 February - 27 May 2007.

Lenvers et lendroit

Collection de lArt Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland, 8 June 2007 - 27 Januar 2008.

Triennial of Self-Taught Art

INSITA 2007. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, 23 June - 30 September 2007.

Enclosures

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 29 September 2007 - 13 January 2008.

Message. Das Medium als Knstler

Kunst und Okkultismus. Cologne Fine Art 2007, Cologne, 31 October - 4 November 2007,

Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany, 16 February 2008 - 13 April 2008.

Kitsch et catch

Maison Folie de Wazemmes, Lille, France, 23 avril - 8 juin 2008, MIAM, France, November 2008 - January

2009, prolonged until November 2009.

Loss of Control. Crossing the Boundaries to Art from Flicien Rops to the Present

Marta Herford Zentrum, Herford, Germany, 1 November 2008 - 25 January 2009.

Claude Roffat: Un parcours singulier

Abbaye dAuberive, France, 13 June 4 October 2009.

Moscow Biennale of Contemporary ArtMoscow, Russia, 24 September 2009 25 October 2009.

Surrealismus und Wahnsinn

Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg, Germany, 26 November 2009 14 February 2010.

Martin Ramirez

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Soa (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain, 30 March 12 July 2010.

Corps accords body talk

Art ) & (marges, Brussels, Belgium, 10 September 31 December 2010.

World Transformers. The Art of the Outsiders (Weltenwandler. Die Kunst der Outsider)Schirn Kunsthalle / Frankfurt-am-Rhein, Germany

24 September 2010 9 January

Le corps imposant. Obsit ou maigreur, perfection ou perturbation

Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium, 8 October 2010 8 May 2011.

Ostalgia

New Museum, New York, USA, 14 July 25 September 2011.

Esprit Mine

Centre historique minier, Lewarde, France, 1 July 31 December 2011.

Judith Scott, objets secretsCollge des Bernardins, Paris, France, 11 October 18 December 2011.


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published by abcd & Actes Sud (July 2000) / Accompanied the exhibition folies de la beautat the museum Campredon in

Isle-sur-la-Sorgue (8 July 22 October 2000)

This collective work, divided in three parts, shows the richness and complexity of art brut. / The rst part presents the

works; it invites us to contemplate the creations of more than eighty authors and for each one of them, meet their particu-

lar world, sometimes unusual and disturbing but always fascinating because of the enigma it represents. / The biographies

in the second part present the often difcult destinies of these extraordinary men and women. Prolic but humble lives,

hidden behind a amboyant artistic imagination. / Finally, the

journal, short essays in the alphabetic order, written by art his-

torians, writers, philosophers, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts,

contributes to casting a new light on the multiple facets of the

subject.

under the direction of Bruno Decharme

with the texts of Bernard Capelier, Bruno Decharme, Christian

Delacampagne, Claudia Dichter, Rgis Gayraud, Jean-Louis La-

noux, Estelle Lematre, Grard Mac, Barbara Safarova, Batrice

Steiner

378 pages / 271 reproductions quadri, 172 black & white / edi-

tion 5,000 copies

a b c d publications

Fernand Desmoulin. Spiritualist Works (1900-1902)

published by abcd and Galerie Messine (February 2002)

Between 1900 and 1902, Fernand Desmoulin, until then an academic en-

graver, became inuenced by spiritualism. His hand, moved by his uncons-

cious, created drawings as if by magic. It is not surpr ising that Andr Breton

was interested in this automatic expression. Today, until now an unknown

part of Desmoulins mediumistic production comes out into the open.


introduction : Bruno Decharme & Thomas le Guillou

with the texts of Jean-Louis Lanoux & Djohar si Ahmed

56 pages / 21 reproductions quadri, 6 black & white / edition 1,000 copies


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Alexander Lobanov and Art Brut in Russia

published by abcd (April 2003)

Can we speak about ar t brut in Russia ? This book attempts to answer this

question by treating two different aspects, the historical and the stylistic.

It is through the analysis of works created in the closely watched Soviet

society, especially of those by Alexander Lobanov, that Rgis Gayraud and

Jean-Louis Lanoux show, each in their own way, the strength of an artistic

expression that dees history.


with the texts of Rgis Gayraud & Jean-Louis Lanoux

72 pages / 50 reproductions quadri / edition 1,000 copies

Anna Zemankova

published by abcd Prague (avril 2003) / This catalogue presents fty-nine unknown works by Anna Zemankova, whose

creation encompasses the 1960s until her death in 1986. The texts are in written in Czech, English and French.

under the direction of Terezie Zemankova

with the texts of Terezie Zemankova and the quotations by Farb Hernandez, Alena Nadvornikova, Jiri Vykoukal, Arsen

Pohribny.

79 pages / 59 reproductions quadri / edition 500 copies

Alose. Facsimile of a Sketchbook

published by abcd & ITE Finland (July 2003)

Born in Lausanne in 1886, Alose Corbaz began to draw

in the 1920s. Until her death on 5 April 1964, she would

have produced thousands of drawings made by chalk or

color pencil, which she sometimes diluted with her own

saliva in order to create glazes with saturated colors. To

achieve the dazzling white color she added toothpaste.

At other times, she integrated collage in her composi-

tions. She drew on both sides of large white sheets, but

she preferred the already used wrapping paper, which

she sewed together with cotton thread.

The dimensions of her drawings range from postcard

format to big rolls, some of which reach fourteen meters. Alose has also created sketchbooks. There are about thirty

of them, according to Jacqueline Porret-Forel, who was Alose general practitioner and friend during the formers stay at

the mental hospital of La Rosire in Gimel-sur-Morges. This particular sketchbook, which contains thirty-eight pages, was

created around 1941. Among Alose works, these notebooks, a sort of intimate pictorial journals, are the most moving

and aesthetically the most accomplished.

38 pages quadri / edition 2,000 copies


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corps perdu - abcd, une collection dart brut

published by Paris Muses (April 2004) / Accompanied the exhibition corps perdu: abcd, une collection dart brut at the

museum Pavillon des Arts (30 April 26 September 2004)

Apart from the reproductions of one hundred and

fty-seven works most which are exhibited and the

biographies of all shown artists, the catalogue allows

great space for discussion. Seventy years after the rstresearch undertaken by Dubuffet, it seems necessary to

question the place of art brut in the beginning of the

21st century. The book as well as the exhibition which it

accompanies, have been based on geographical principle

: Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Nor-

thern and Southern America.

under the direction of Bruno Decharme and Vincent Gille, with the texts by Barbara Safarova (Hundred years of Col-

lections, a Century of Collectors), and Vincent Gille (Art Brut is Art Brut)

interview with Batrice Steiner

interview with Bruno Decharme

interview with Jean-Louis Lanoux

160 pages 157 reproductions quadri, 11 black and white / edition 2, 000 copies

art brut, collection abcd

published by abcd (June 2006). Under the direction of Bruno

Decharme, Barbara Safarova and Terezie Zemankova, this cata-

logue accompanies the exhibition art brut: collection abcdat the

Prague City Gallery (14 June 10 September 2006).

Summary

Lets Go and See For Ourselves / Introduction / Barbara Safa-

rova and Terezie Zemankova

Art Works

Parallel Worlds / Metamorphosis of the Body / Inner Voices

Biographies

Lets Go and See For Ourselves / Continued / Barbara Safarova

and Terezie ZemankovaInterview with Bruno Decharme

About Art Brut

Terra Incognita / Vincent Gille

When Meaning Falters / Jean-Louis Lanoux

Art Brut : Molten Mirror, Burning Wax / Manuel Anceau

On the Virtues of Creative Decompartmentalisation / Patricia Allio

Art Brut in History

History of Art Brut in a Few Dates

Outsider Art in the Context of Central European Modern Art / Marie Rakusanova

Bibliography

abcd

The Collection / The Exhibitions / The Publications / The Films

Portraits of the Authors

308 pages, 217 reproductions quadri, 85 black & white


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abcd the journal. No. 1 March 2005

The journal no.1 has been devoted to the exhibition The Song of

Sirens, Automatism in Art Brut.

Summary

Editorial: Bruno Decharme

About Art Brut: abcd

Automatic Sirens: Jean-Louis Lanoux

Gatan Gatian de Clrambault: Jean-Louis Lanoux

List of Exhibited Works and Biographies: Bruno Decharme and Bar-

bara Safarova

Am, Stram, Gram, Engram: Batrice Steiner

The History of Automatism: Jean-Louis Lanoux

24 pages / 23 reproductions quadri / editorial direction - Bruno

Decharme / graphic design - Francis Lachance / edition 3,000 copies

abcd the journal. No. 2 November 2005

The journal no. 2 focuses on the exhibitionJanko Domsic & Zdenek

Kosek: Creators of the Sky and the Earth .

Summary

Editorial: Bruno Decharme

Puppets and Pentacles : Apocalypse according to Domsic: Jean-

Louis Lanoux

Bluebeard, Red Tornado: Batrice Steiner

Zdenek Kosek, Master of Time: Barbara Safarova and Terezie Ze-

mankova

Zdenek Kosek, the Sorcerer: Vincent Gille

32 pages / 69 reproductions quadri / editorial direction - Bruno

Decharme / graphic design - Francis Lachance / edition 3,000

copies

abcd le journal. No. 3 April 2007The journal no. 3 is devoted to the exhibitionMontreuil California: 5

Creators from the Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland.

Summary

interview with Tom di Maria, director of the Creative Growth Art

Center, conducted by Barbara Safarova, with the help of Catherine

Edelman

Wonder Weavers: Jean-Louis Lanoux

List of Exhibited Works and Biographies: Bruno Decharme and Bar-

bara Safarova

16 pages / 30 quadri reproductions / editorial direction - Bruno

Decharme / graphic design - Francis Lachance

/ edition 3,000 copies


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Art Brut, Passion and Action

published by abcd & Kuyryudo Art-Publishing Co., Ltd. (September

2008) / This book is destined to wide public.

Under the direction of Yukiko Koide and with the texts by Yukiko Koide

and Barbara Safarova and an interview with Bruno Decharme.

172 pages/ 154 quadri reproductions / edition 20,000 copies

Art Brut, collection abcd

published by abcd & The Museum Of Modern Art, Shiga

(September 2008) / Accompanied the exhibitionArt Brut.

Collection abcdat the Museum of Modern Art of Shiga Pre-

fecture (25 October 30 November 2008)

Under the direction of Atsuo Yamamoto, Bruno Decharme

and Barbara Safarova.

With the texts by Manuel Anceau, Barbara Safarova and an

interview with Bruno Decharme

271 pages / 153 quadri reproductions / edition 1,000 copies

abcd the journal. No. 4 October 2009

The journal no. 4 focuses on the exhibition Anatomia Metamor-

phosis: Lubos Plny & Anna Zemankova.

Summary :

Editorial: Barbara Safarova

Secret Viscera Suddenly Lightened up: Manuel Anceau

Biographical information: Terezie Zemankova

16 pages / 52 quadri reproductions / editorial direction - Bruno

Decharme / graphic design - Francis Lachance

edition 3,000 copies


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a b c d the films

Alexander Pavlovitch Lobanov

Deaf-and-dumb, Alexandre Pavlovitch Lobanov has been conned to a mental hospital in Russia for the last fty years. /

After a period of revolt, he retreats into absolute silence while developing an exceptional pictorial production.

format digital beta & 35mm / length 7 minutes / language french - english - russian / direction Bruno Decharme / edit

Roselyne Petit c/o GLPIPA / image treatment Jola Kudela c/o Sparx / graphic design Benjamin Rossignol c/o the Dynamo

of Saint-Cloud / Barbara Safarova / production abcd 2001

broadcast

festival of Clermont-Ferrand (February 2002)

festival of cinma du rel

centre Georges Pompidou (March 2002)

Special award discerned by the jury

by the Ministery of Foreign Affairs

rtrospective : cin alternative (March 2002)

canal + and afliated channels (2002)

Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Paris

High Museum of Ar t, Atlanta

American Folk Art Museum, New York

Collection de lArt Brut, Lausanne

American universities tour (September 2002) :

Egyptian Theater of American Cinematheque, Los Angeles

Norman University, Oklahoma

New York University, New York

Columbia University, New York

Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York

International Festival of French-speaking Cinema in Acadia (September 2002)

rencontres de la Villette (October 2002)

fentre sur courts, festival of Dijon (December 2002)

Institut Franais, London (7 March 2003)

Le printemps des potes, Charleville-Mzires (11 March 2003)

Festival International du Film sur lArt (FIFA) Montreal (13 March 23 March 2003)

Special award discerned by the jury

Henry Darger

A portrait of Henry Darger reconstructed by means of his room which was, for forty years, the secret theatre of hiscreation.

format digital beta 1.75 / length 10 minutes / language french - english / director Bruno Decharme / edit Roselyne Petit

c/o GLpipa / image treatment Rasto Simocko c/o UPP / music Alain Mouysset / text & singing Fanny Castelli / produc-

tion abcd 2003

Gene Merritt

Gene Merritt grows up with alcoholic and violent parents. His mother commits suicide when he was twelve years old. / As

an adult, he tries out all kinds of jobs but in the end he joins his father in leading a life full of violence and alcohol. At the

age of fty-six he begins drawing. The drawings from the rst period, inspired by the photos of showbusiness stars, political

personalities but also animals, are composed like puzzles from dislocated pieces. / After the death of his father Gene Mer-

ritt lives completely abandoned in a trailer on the ground of a family that is supposed to take care of him. / Today, thanksto the support from rare friends and social aide, Gene Merritt has stopped drinking. He lives in a charity house in Rock Hill.

His drawings have become simpler, the lines dividing the faces have disappeared and the portraits have become smoother.

format digital beta / length 8 minutes / language french - english / direction Bruno Decharme / edit Jan Zuska c/o UPP /

image treatment Rasto Simocko c/o UPP / graphic layout Michal Habrdla c/o UPP / production abcd 2002.


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Zdenek Kosek

In the 1980s a profound psychical rupture changes Zdenek Koseks perception of the world. He invents an entirely new

system of transcribing his new state of being in the form of drawings-formulas, which allow him to function as the great

invisible priest governing the destiny of the world.

format digital beta 1.75 / length 15 minutes / language czech french - english / direction Bruno Decharme / edit Adela

Spaljova / telecinema Anne Szymcowiak c/o GLpipa / image treatment Mikros / music Alain Mouysset / interview with

Zdenek Kosek conducted by Terezie Zemankova / executive production Barbara Safarova / production abcd 2003

Richard Greaves

The story of a man exiled from the cities. In a forest of Quebec, he creates houses-sculptures. Cabins from accumula-

tions of waste and scrap material he nds on the roadside.

format digital beta 1.75 / length 10 minutes / language french - english / direction Bruno Decharme / edit Jirka Cvancara

c/o Beep studio / telecinema Anne Szymcowiak c/o GLpipa / image treatment Franois Le Bastard c/o Digital / sound-

design Velvet Lab / mix Studio Time / executive production Barbara Safarova / with the support of SAI - Consulat de

France / with the help of Kamila Balvinova - Csar Decharme / / text inspired by the ar ticle of Valrie Rousseau and Sa-

rah Lombardi Richard Greaves Anarchitect Milan/Montral 5 Continents Editions / SAI 2005 / production abcd 2005

George Widener

George Widener can memorize dates, days and events from 180 years a.d. Considering himself as a savant ar tist, he

has developed a system of calendars by which he organizes his perception of the world.

format digital beta 1.75 / length 14 minutes / language french - english / direction Bruno Decharme / edit Adela Spaljova

/ animation of drawings Michal Sverma / image treatment Jan Cerny c/o Studio Pokrok / music Alain Mouysset / sound

Petr Cechak c/o Studio Pokrok / mix OBahamas / executive production Barbara Safarova / production abcd 2005

broadcast

American Folk Art Museum, New York

High Museum of Ar t, Atlanta

Collection de lArt Brut, Lausanne

Martha Grnenwaldt

After a life of homelessness and torment Martha Grnenwaldt nds peace at her daughters place and begins to

draw at seventy-one years of age.

format digital beta 1.75 / length 4 minutes / language french - english / direction Bruno Decharme / edit Adela

Spaljova / executive production Barbara Safarova / production abcd 2007

Kunizo Matsumoto

Kunizo Matsumoto cannot read or write, however he remembers cer tain ideograms and invents a form of writing

resembling hieroglyphs.

format digital beta 1.75 / length 8 minutes / language french, english / direction Bruno Decharme / edit Adela Spaljova

/ animation of drawings Michal Sverma / image treatment Jan Cerny c/o Studio Pokrok / music Alain Mouysset / exe-

cutive production Barbara Safarova / production abcd 2007

Dan MillerA snapshot of the life in the Creative Growth Art Center focusing on Dan Miller and his artistic production.

format digital beta 1.75 / length 4 minutes / language french - english / direction Bruno Decharme / edit Adela

Spaljova / image treatment Jan Cerny c/o Studio Pokrok / sound design Petr Cechak c/o Studio Pokrok / executive

production Barbara Safarova / production abcd 2007


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Rouge Ciel. An Essay on Art Brut

ROUGE CIEL tells the story of these artists out of norms, visionaries who set our spirits ablaze and

shake up our ideas. ROUGE CIEL shows how these artists managed to overcome their often tragic

destinies thanks to ar tistic creation. It also features the interviews of writers , philosophers, psychologists

and art amateurs who have influenced the study of art brut.

The Japanese Kunizo Matsumoto cannot read nor write , yet he has invented a form of writing that is

both beautiful and enigmatic.

The American George Widener, who is capable of memor izing events of the last 1,500 years, can alsopredict the future, which he inscr ibes in his magic squares.

Fernand Desmoulin, a French engraver, draws with no light while the spirits guide his hand.

The Czech Zdenek Kosek sits for weeks, looking through his w indow, with no food or sleep. In his note-

book he records a ll sounds and movements around him, fearing that if he stops, the world would cease

to exist.

with: Henry Darger . Gabriel Joaquim Dos Santos . Adolphe-Julien Four . Zdenek Kosek . Alexandre

Lobanov . Helen Martins . Kunizo Matsumoto . Simon Rodia . George Widener . Purvis Young & the in-

ter views of : Manue l Anceau . Jean Dubuffet . Ph il lys Kind . Jean-Louis Lanoux . Randa ll Morr is . Lucienne

Peiry . Jennifer Pinto Safian . Barbara Safarova . Grard Schreiner . Michel Thvoz.

93 minutes - HD - Audio Dolby Digital 5.1 & 2.0

FESTIVALS

2011

upcoming screening : Prague, Olomouc (Rpublique tchque), Kobe, Hiroshima (Japon), Bordeaux,

Montreuil (dans le cadre des Ecrans philosophiques, en collaboration avec le Collge I nternational de

Philosophie et le cinma Le Mlis)

2011

.festival de lhistoire de l art, Fontainebleau, 29 mai.

2010

.International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, Plus Camerimage, Pologne, 27 novembre/4

dcembre.

.Institut Franais de Pr ague, 19 novembre.

.International Film Festival Durban, South Africa, 1/15 novembre.

.Madness Film festival Toronto, Canada, 5/13 novembre.

.Chagrin Falls International Documentaries Film Festival, 12/16 octobre,

Award for the Best Experimental Documentary.

.Festival International de Hambourg, Allemagne, 30 septembre/09 octobre.

.Raindance Film Festival, Londres, Grande Bretagne, 28 septembre 10 octobre.

.Collection de lAr t Brut, Lausanne, Suisse, 25 septembre 2010.

.Artcity Festival 2010, Calgar y, Canada, 10/19 septembre.

.International Film Festival Ireland, 4/11 septembre.

.Sztukowanie / Festival of Art Gr yfino, Pologne, 2/5 septembre.

.Blissfest333, Colorado, USA, 1/30 septembre.

.International Film & Video Festival Por tland, Oregon, USA, 23/28 aot.

.Heart of England International Film Festival, Grande Bretagne, 10/15 aot.

.I Y F F Port Talbot, South Wales, Grande Bretagne, 3/7 aot.

.Seattle International Film Festival, USA, 20 mai/13 juin.

.Swansea Bay Festival, Grande Bretagne, 7/16 mai.

.Bommer Festival, Ukraine, 24 avril.

.Geneva Festival, USA, 16/18 avril,

Award for The Best Documentar y Feature.

.Durango Independant Film Festival, USA, 3/7 mars.

.Festivus Film Festival, Denver, USA, 14/17 janvier,

Award for The Best Documentar y Feature.


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IN POSPRODUCTION

Petr DobsakEva Droppova

Frantisek Frances

Cleveland Turner Lhomme eur

Los Pozas DEdward James

THEATER

Brut Writings

Improvised reading in the abcd gallery, designed by Sylvie Reteuna (Compagnie La Sybille)

14, 15 & 16 December.

This reading presents some texts from creators conned to psychiatric hospitals and nursing homes. The writingshave been preserved in the library of Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris and appear in various journals and books on

psychiatry from 1850 to 1950. Some were published by Laurent Danon-Boileau as the Textes sans spulture(texts

without a burial place). Others have been collected by Michel Thvoz and published under the title Ecrits bruts.

design / Sylvie Reteuna

direction / Kate France and Sylvie Reteuna

with Juliette Flipo, Kate France, Melanie Menu, Eram Sobhani

IN PRODUCTION

. a new film on LUBOS PLNY

. CHARLES A. DELLSCHAU. Barbara Safarova began researching the work of the American ar tistCharles A. Dellschau which will result in an exhibition and a publication.

. ARCHITECTURES & UTOPIA an exhibition and publication focusing on the ar tistic production of

ACHILLES G. Rizzoli.


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a b c d the contact

abcd,la galerie

12, rue Voltaire

93100 Montreuil

abcd(head ofce)

12, rue Voltaire

93 100 Montreuil

Barbara Safarova tel 06 22 26 70 56

abcd president

e-mail [email protected]

website www. abcd - artbrut .net


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