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**ROB OBER: NO IDEOLOGY, PLEASE. THIS ART IS REAL.
“I am suspicious of art informed or directed by ideas or any ideology,” the American artist Rob Ober says. Keeping it real, authentic, shot through with a real pulse, and wildly colorful, Ober’s work feels irresistibly spontaneous and fresh. See. React. Paint. Here, the artist, who grew up all over the place, shares some thoughts about his art. Note to self: We’re in love with those gators. Click here to see article.
**JAMAICAN INTUITIVES: IT’S RAS DIZZY’S WORLD
Ras Dizzy (circa 1932-2008) was one of the most important of the Jamaican Intuitives, a group of self-taught artists whose works began to earn recognition in Jamaica in the late 1970s and notably contributed to shaping a sense of the postcolonial, independent island country’s national cultural identity. A selection of Dizzy’s works from a unique private collection. Click here to see article.
**A BIG, BOLD NEW BOOK: FRANÇOIS JAUVION’S TRIBUTE TO ART BRUT AND OUTSIDER ART MASTERS
In 2020, the French artist François Jauvion’s large-format book L’imagier singulier was published. It featured his own illustrations and texts by various specialists about the lives and accomplishments of numerous art brut and outsider artists. Now, a second volume of Jauvion’s big opus is here. See our overview of L’imagier singulier, Tome 2. Click here to see article.
**ARTIST CATHY WARD: IN LONDON, THE PSYCHIC, SOULFUL MESSAGES OF “THE ORACLES”
Like many art-makers, what with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic period and other concerns, the London-based artist Cathy Ward, who works in various media and genres, has wrestled with numerous, big challenges. Recently, as if purging the negative energy surrounding her, Ward sat down in a corner of her home to create a series of bold, mystical paintings. “They allowed me to reset myself,” she says. See a portfolio of these powerful new pictures. Click here to see article.
**PHOTOGRAPHER JOEL SIMPSON: CAPTURING NATURE’S BIZARRE CREATIVE SPIRIT — AND POWER
The photographer Joel Simpson travels widely in search of unusual natural rock formations and strange textures in the surface of the earth. Here, a selection of new photos from Simpson’s latest expeditions to the Southwest of the U.S.A. illustrates a theoretical approach he has developed to appreciating such striking images. As he notes, it leads viewers “from traditional landscape through abstraction, figuration, and finally to fiction." Click here to see article.
**OFF THE WALL: NEW YORK CITY STREET POETS AND VISIONARIES, THE KENNETH GOLDSMITH COLLECTION
In the 1980s, Kenneth Goldsmith, a poet and university professor, began tearing off anonymously made, handwritten ads, religious-themed proclamations, and oddball declarations that he found posted on walls and lampposts on the streets of New York City. A bemusing selection of such bizarre “poetry” was recently shown at Andrew Edlin Gallery. Click here to see article.
**GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: EMMANUEL HERZ’S JELLYFISH INVASION
Earlier this year, at the café/restaurant Remor in Geneva, Switzerland, we stumbled upon a stunning display of Emmanuel Herz’s festive “Fascinantes Méduses” (“Fascinating Jellyfish”), a group of sculptures and paintings that had taken over the old joint’s ceiling lamps and walls. We were smitten — and maybe also bitten. See out photo-filled report. Click here to see article.
LUCIENNE PEIRY: IN ARMAND SCHULTHESS'S ART GARDEN
Le Jardin de la mémoire (The Garden of Memory), a new book by Lucienne Peiry, looks at the life and site-specific art environment of the art brut creator Armand Schulthess (1901-1972), a businessman who withdrew from society to concoct a garden that conjoined art and nature, bringing human knowledge out into the wild. Free access to this article.
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REDISCOVERING THE WORK OF THE GERMAN CERAMICS ARTIST STEFAN HOLZMÜLLER
The German ceramicist Stefan Holzmüller died at the age of 61 in 2010, leaving behind a relatively large body of work that was under-appreciated during his lifetime. After his death, by chance, the collector Gregor Stehle discovered some pieces by Holzmüller, only to learn that his entire estate was about to be sold off in flea-market conditions. Now Stehle has produced big new book documenting the artist’s life and work — and recounting a rescue tale.
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SCIENCE & ART: CAN YOU REALLY TELL COLORS BY THEIR WEIGHTS?
It might seem improbable or unlikely, but it's actually possible to tell the difference between various colors of paint according to their respective weights. brutjournal’s science correspondent, David Bjerklie, weighs in on this topic, noting that “color can be measured with colorimeters and spectrophotometers,” while the digital colors on our screens require “another technical vocabulary.” Is color light? Or material? It’s a heavy subject.
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OBITUARY: SELF-TAUGHT CATHEDRAL-MAKER JUSTO GALLEGO MARTÍNEZ
The Spanish artist Justo Gallego Martínez, who spent nearly six decades almost single-handedly building a cathedral of his own design, died late last year at the age of 96. Jo Farb Hernández, who has long documented self-taught artists’ site-specific art environments in Spain, offers an obituary of a visionary whose thrill, she suggests, may have lain more in his enjoyment of his creative process than in the completion of his ambitious project.
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ISSEI NISHIMURA, LAYER UPON LAYER
The artist Issei Nishimura is reclusive and prolific; since his young adulthood, at his home in the outskirts of Nagoya, a commercial-industrial city in central Japan, he has created a large body of work that includes paintings, works on paper, and sketchbooks filled with strange, psychologically intense images: female nudes, cats, mysterious mushrooms, and more. brutjournal caught his latest solo exhibition at Heartfield Gallery, in Nagoya.
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