Donato Zangrossi, Casa delle girandole/The house with the pinwheels
unknown photographer (picture made available by Zangrossi's daughter to the Allogi Barbario weblog )Venice has a lot of creative and artistic constructs which are admired by people from all over the...
View Articleupdate: Josep Pujiula, save the Argelaguer site
picture courtesy of Rafa CastellsRecently, I several times have updated my original post (January 9, 2009) about Josep Pujiula, who since the eighties has been active in constructing an outsider art...
View ArticleOutdoor exposition at Facteur Cheval's Palais Idéal
panel presenting Chatelain's Humoristic Gardenpictures courtesy of Marie-José Georges, director Palais IdéalFrom May 10th untill October 31 2013 the Palais Idéal has an outdoor exposition, presenting...
View Articleupdate: Pietro Moschini, a photobook by Pavel Konecny
I have updated my post of april 24, 2013, about Pietro Moschini, adding that this month (may 2013) a photo-booklet about Moschini has appeared, edited and published by Pavel Konecny.Konecny, a...
View ArticlePierre Bouvarel, Le ron des fades/The fairies rock
Dompnac is a small community of some 80 inhabitants in the southern Ardèche in France, a territory that in terms of landscape is part of the Cévennes.Touristic sites recommend the area around the...
View Articleupdate: Abbé Fouré, a booklet by Joëlle Jouneau
The Association of friends of Abbé Fouré's oeuvre has been rather active this spring (2013).Stimulated by the association, the exhibition l'Art Brut à l'Ouest (Brest, Musée des Beaux Arts) opened in...
View ArticleExposition in Brussels features Palais Idéal
screenprint from the museum's websiteThis summer (2013) the Palais Idéal, the famous environment made between 1879 and 1912 by Joseph-Ferdinand Cheval, will be featured in Brussels.Annex to the summer...
View ArticleGeneral Assembly of the European Outsider Art Association 2013
This year (2013) the Europen Outsider Art Association had its annual general assembly end may in Heidelberg at the Prinzhorn Institute. The main theme for this meeting was "Ethical questions in...
View ArticleLes demeures imaginaires/Imaginary dwellings
screenprint All the years I have been researching documentation about outsider environments, I did not come along a referral to a movie made in 1977, entitled Les demeures imaginaires, untill some days...
View ArticleRené Delrieu, Jardin décoré/Decorated garden
this and the next two pictures (2006) published with permission of the "archives départementales du Cantal"Above picture, courtesy of the departmental archives of Cantal, shows the decorated garden of...
View ArticleExposition at Cathédrale de Jean Linard
On the premises of the site La Cathédrale de Jean Linard this summer (2013) there will be an exposition that features outsider artists from Italian descent who made art environments, both some born and...
View ArticleCharles Clave, Musée Charlot/Charlot's Museum
pictures from the website Empreinte d'ArtIl les avait vus....He had seen them.........Charles Clave (1920-1998), nicknamed Charlot, from the french community of...
View ArticleYiorgos Chavaledakis, ΚΟΥΜΟΣ, ΠΕΤΡΙΝΗ ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΗ/ Koumos, Stone Construction
pictures are screenprints from Serflac's video(see documentation)Yiorgos Chavaledakis's stone construction is an ensemble of buildings, structures and sculptures made from stones, varying in shape,...
View ArticleMarcel Debord, Lou cabanou d'ou mounié/The cabin of the miller
all pictures courtesy of Thierry Bucquoy,from his weblog *Like the stories of so many outsider environments, what follows is a story of transcience.Life and worksWritten in Occitan, a language...
View ArticleRogier Lemìère, l'Afrique/Africa
pictures courtesy of Sophie Lepetit, from her weblogLamasquère is a community of some 1300 inhabitants, southwest of Toulouse, in southern France.Located near the hustle and dense housing of the big...
View ArticleFrancisco González Grajera, El capricho de Cotrina/Cotrina's whimsy
picture licensed under Creative Commons (Gotardo González) This house in Los Santos de Maimona (Extramadura, Spain) is a marvel of form and decoration.Life and worksFrancisco González Grajera (b. 1935)...
View ArticleWim de Vries, Sprookjeswonderland/Fairy wonderland
pictures by Inky van SwelmVery occasionally it happens that someone who at a young age creates fairy tale characters, sees his creative activities result in a venue for public entertainment. This blog...
View ArticlePavel Bezrukov, Поляна сказок/Fairy tale garden
all pictures courtesy of the Polyana Skazok Museum :Located north of Yalta on the Crimea peninsula in Ukraine, Polyana Skazok is an outdoor museum of over 300 sculptures, all relating to fairies and...
View ArticleJosef Mach, Machuv vcelin/Mach's apiary
all pictures courtesy of Pavel KonecnyThe small community of Kruslov, south of Prague, in the Bohemian area of the Czech Republic, houses a very special outsider art environment, with a colorful...
View ArticleEnrico Capra, Casa decorata/Decorated house
pictures courtesy of Cristine CalicelliSan Daniele Po is a small community of some 1500 inhabitants in the Lombardian regio in Italy. In a sidetreet of the Strada Provincial 85 that intersects the...
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