Laurent Danchin Art Brut is terribly fashionable these days, especially in France. For reasons that are complex and linked to a general historical paradigm shift in culture, after decades of semi-clandestine existence it is moving from the margins to the centre and is gaining triple recognition from museums, universities and the market. In the same move, freed from the jealous and possessive passion of its pioneers, it is changing hands, becoming prey to the facilities of vulgarised rediscovery and, like all the other products of an essentially commercial society, it enters the area of “hype,” of promotional strategies, not to say disguised publicity copy. Or else it becomes a bit academic, painstaking, almost tedious, which, for such an extraordinary and imaginatively stimulating domain, is rock bottom. And so it is that, for better or worse, this wild child, badly brought up, that would never have been allowed at any bourgeois table, is henceforth the subject of an intensive clean-up and recuperation campaign, at the risk of somewhat losing its head and seeing itself largely submerged on the way by the crowd of opportunists, wannabes or imposters.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:12:58 +0000
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