Venue:
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Curators:
Thomas M. Messer and Fred Licht.

Artists:
Jean Dubuffet, Aloïse, Carlo, Paul End, Madge Gill, Laure, Raphaël Lonné, Reinhold Metz and Adolf Wölfli.

Exhibition description:
This exhibition pair a remarkable group of works by Art Brut practitioners with works by Jean Dubuffet. The Art Brut ensemble was originally collected by Dubuffet, who himself coined the term Art Brut, and employed this expression as part of his strategy to subvert the conventions of modern art. The show presented artworks by Dubuffet that belong to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, plus other works by the artist lent by his longstanding collector Pierre Matisse and of loans from the Collection d’Art Brut in Lausanne, France.

Catalogue:
Messer, Thomas M. and Fred Licht. Jean Dubuffet & Art Brut. Venice: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation e Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1986.

Bilingual catalogue, in English and Italian. Includes forward and acknowledgments by Thomas M. Messer (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation) and essays by Fred Licht, Thomas M. Messer and Michel Thévoz director of the Collection d’Art Brut, Lausanne.

Library location: GUGG PGC 1986 .08, UFFICIO 25 0009, MON DUBU JEAN 0001