Willem van Genk
The Gemeentemuseum The Hague has organized an exhibition about Outsider Art. There is no conclusive definition of the phenomenon.
Willem van Genk
Willem van Genk
Willem van Genk
Willem van Genk
Is it art by mentally disturbed people? Well, apart from what mentally disturbed exactly is, many of the presented artists are not or were not.
Willem van Genk
Willem van Genk
Willem van Genk
Willem van Genk
You might call it work caused by obsession instead of artistic merit. But that is just not true, and does the making of art not need a kind of obsession?
Willem van Genk
Willem van Genk
Aaltje Dammer
Aaltje Dammer
One could even call it art that has been systematically kept outside the art historical discourse, which isn’t completely true either. Also many works are intellectually sound and their sometimes intensive manual labour isn’t therapeutic (although it may have worked like that) but constructive.
Siebe Wiemer Glastra
Siebe Wiemer Glastra
Siebe Wiemer Glastra
Siebe Wiemer Glastra
The present exhibition shows works ranging from naive to intellectually challenging and from very humoristic to extremely sad. I’ll leave you just with the pictures, undisturbed by my comments.
Siebe Wiemer Glastra
Siebe Wiemer Glastra
Pavel Petrovich Leonov
Pavel Petrovich Leonov
Pavel Petrovich Leonov
Michel Nedjar
Michel Nedjar
Rosemary Koczy
Rosemary Koczy
Rosemary Koczy
Rosemary Koczy
Rosemary Koczy
Sylvia Katuszewski
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
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Bertus Jonkers
Bertus Jonkers
Saì Kijima
Saì Kijima
Saì Kijima
Nikifor
NAPAKU
I don’t quite understand what NAPAKU’s aka Piet van den Heuvel’s work is doing in this show. (I wrote quite extensively about his work in 2012 here – in Dutch)
NAPAKU
NAPAKU
NAPAKU
NAPAKU
NAPAKU
(Click on the pictures to enlarge)
Bertus Pieters
