Jean Dubuffet and Art Brut Outsiders at Mudec Milan

The Mudec museum in Milan is hosting an exhibition centered on Jean Dubuffet and the Art Brut movement he coined in 1945. The show features a selection of Dubuffet's own works—from early deliberately childish drawings like 'Arabe à la rose' (1948) to mature pieces such as 'Texturologie VII' (1957) and 'Les Fleurs du Sol' (1960)—alongside pieces from the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, which Dubuffet donated to the city in 1970 and which opened as a museum in 1976. The exhibition highlights artists like Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964), who after a breakdown at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II filled sheets with voluptuous women and military lovers; Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930), whose compulsive drawing, writing, and music attracted Freud and André Breton; and Augustine Lesage (1876-1954), a French miner who claimed spirit guidance to paint densely patterned canvases. Dubuffet defined Art Brut as art created outside cultural circuits, by self-taught individuals often in psychiatric institutions, free from academic and commercial influences. The exhibition runs at Mudec in Milan.