outsider art • art brut • the unclassifiable • the avant-avant-garde
JANUARY 2022
WELCOME TO brutjournal!
SO EXACTLY WHAT ARE WE UP TO HERE?
WELL WE’RE INTERESTED IN FORMS OF ART AND CULTURAL EXPRESSION THAT BREAK THE MOLD; THAT ARE FRESH, DIFFERENT, EXPERIMENTAL, DARING, AND DEFY FAMILIAR LABELS; AND THAT, FOR ALL THEIR INNOVATION OR FAR-OUT FORM, UNABASHEDLY CELEBRATE AND REAFFIRM THE HUMAN SPIRIT.
SOUND GOOD?
Shigeko Kubota, close-up of “Korean Grave,” 1993, a mixed-media sculpture incorporating video monitors and video images, on view in the exhibition Viva Video! The Art and Life of Shigeko Kubota at the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in Nagaoka, Japan, earlier this year. Photo by brutjournal