Thursday 18th July, 2019

17.30 hrs.

18.00 hrs.

At Main Gallery, 8th floor

Registration

Opening Ceremony

The term "Art Brut" isn’t a new paradigm of art pedagogy regardless of the fact that some audience never experienced a sincere invention of aesthetics created by artists outside art school. Marking its inception in 1945 by Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut serves as a particular genre of creativity, exposing hidden dialogue and demonstration of arts in a naïve, raw, free, and unexplainable and ruleless form. One characteristic of Art Brut is the works are done by a person or a group of socially and culturally isolated people such as people with disabilities, prisoners, non-art training artists, and senior citizens, etc. These outsider artists employ creativity and express it for personal purposes. They "do not consider themselves to be artists and they do not designate their production as art", Dubuffet addressed. Instead, self-centeredness and intuitiveness are key resources to elucidate the means and ends of Art Brut.

"Thailand and Japan ART BRUT: Figure of Unknown Beauty" is a large Art Brut exhibition in South East Asia in collaboration between Japan and Thailand, to introduce the works of 51 Thai and Japanese artists, which include paintings, sculptures, ceramics, photographs etc., divided into five categories:

1. "Repetition, Dense and Homogenous" will show works on the topic of "rawness", an Art Brut characteristic, which highlights the freshness and the expressions which seem to spring out from the inside.

2. "Raw materials and creation in everyday life" will show the production environment and look at materials and techniques from the fact that they are used and created in everyday life.

3. "Desire, the source, what makes them create" will show the author's thoughts and wishes which were at the source of creations for each topic.

4. "Art, which is born of a relationship" focuses on the background of the production and introduces the relationship between the artists and others around them. The authors of Art Brut do not voluntarily unveil their works. There are many cases in which the works get revealed to the world by first becoming known to the people around the artists such as family members and supporters, who were in the background of a work when it was born and became known.

5. "For further creation" showcases collaborative works of contemporary artists and Art Brut artists who attempted new creations.

Curators: Seina Kimoto and Suebsang Sangwachirapiban

BANGKOK ART AND CULTURE CENTRE

For more information, please contact BACC Information

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