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SPACES in Switzerland

I was delighted to be approached by the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, Switzerland to co-curate an exhibition of annotated photographs of art environments to complement their exhibition Architectures, which opened November 13, 2015 and will continue through April 17, 2016. Our photographs were significantly enlarged and installed on panels in front of the museum; the following artists are featured: Josep Pujiula, Francisco Gonzalez Gragera, Peter Buch, and Felix Sanperiz from Spain (texts and photos mine); Euclides Da Costa Ferreira from France (photos Seymour Rosen, text by Henk van Es), and Sabato Rodia (photos and text mine), along with Billy Tripp and Cano Espinoza from the US (photos and text by Fred Scruton). There is also a separate panel which focuses on SPACES and our history/mission/activities, introducing what we do to the targeted audience of the Collection de l’art brut.

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Materializing the Bible. by James S. Bielo (Miami University)

Materializing the Bible

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Call to Action: Preserve Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in California

Call to Action: Preserve Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village in California

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Mr. Imagination exhibit at Intuit named one of 10 best in the United States

Mr. Imagination exhibit at Intuit named one of 10 best in the United States

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SPACES Director to Present Singular Spaces at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum

SPACES Director to Present Singular Spaces at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum

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Jean-Michel Chesné’s Garden and Grotto under threat from road realignment!

The site in 2012.

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Margaret’s Grocery listed as one of Mississippi’s Historic Trust’s 10 Most Endangered Properties!

Margaret’s Grocery listed as one of Mississippi’s Historic Trust’s 10 Most Endangered Properties!

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Watch 1990s Jarvis Cocker Travel Art Environments All Over the World in This BBC Mini-Series

The art of the "Common People."

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Conservation of Chomo’s Village d’art Préludien Begins in France

 

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Sign petition to help save Roberto Pérez’s Spanish art environment!

Roberto Pérez has spent more than a quarter century creating a variety of artwork in different media, but his masterpiece is an architectural sculpture in the Spanish province of Granada. This work has been created with stone and recycled materials of all kinds, and  he has become known by many as the “Andalucian Gaudí.”

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