Conference by the art historian Baptiste Brun
This conference on the theme "The Making of Art Brut" takes place in the context of the exhibition "La Déconniatrie. Art, exile and psychiatry around François Tosquelles".
Free entrance
When in 1945 the painter Jean Dubuffet invented the notion of "art brut", he probably had no idea that the expression would become so popular that it would survive. By this expression, the artist designates unclassifiable works realized by people foreign to the world of the art and to its uses. The research of these works of a remarkable singularity and invention engages him to weave links with the world of the human and social sciences, in particular ethnography and psychiatry. It is these explorations that lead him to the asylum of Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole.
Baptiste Brun is an art historian, teacher and exhibition curator. He has published various books and articles on the history of the notion of art brut and its contemporary avatars. He is the author of Jean Dubuffet et la besogne de l'Art Brut (les presses du réel, 2019) and the curator of the exhibition "Jean Dubuffet, un barbare en Europe" (Mucem, Ivam, Meg, 2019-2020). He supervises the master's degree "Métiers et arts de l'exposition" at the University of Rennes 2.