Mario Chichorro, guest of honour of the 9th edition of the Grand BAZ’ART
The 9th edition of the International Outsider Art Festival Le Grand BAZ’ART will take place in Gisors, in Normandy, on June 30, July 1, 2, 2017.
For this 9th edition, the guest of honour is the Portugese-born artist Mario Chichorro, whose "polychrome bas-reliefs, reminiscent of a second Middle-Age" (L. Danchin) were shown within Singuliers de l’Art, the historic exhibition put up on 1978 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, ans also during Outsiders, the show organised by Roger Cardinal and Victor Musgrave in 1979 in London. His works were also included in the Neuve Invention section of the Musée de la Collection de l’Art Brut de Lausanne, as well as at Alain Bourbonnais’ La Fabuloserie, in Dicy (Yonne).
Accompagnying this lord of Outsider Art, in the main exhibition venue, the Grand BAZ‘ART presents fifteen artists from France (Emma Ash, Marcel Bénais, Brigitte Breyton, Hubert Duprilot, Laure Ketfa, Sandrine Lepelletier, Margaux Salmi, Victor Soren), India (Bibek Santra), Iran (Samaneh Atef), Brasil (Tania de Maya Pedrosa) and Romania (Gheorghe Parascan, Maria Margoș, Gabriela Szilagi and Paraschiva Dumitru).
At the Salle Charpillon, a capsule show, Bagnoles et bahuts, curated by Michel Leroux, who will show the public a selection of "classic" Art Brut and related works, around the theme of vehicles, signed by: Thierry Chanaud, Serge Delaunay, Claudine Goux, François Peeters, Prophet Royal Robertson, Emmanuel Tharin, Jean Tourlonias, Robert Vassalo, Pépé Vignes.
In the Church St Gervais-St Protais, a splendid edifice of monumental size, dating back to the 13th century, the exhibition titled Kyrie eleison brings together ten very large formats done by the Romanian self-taught religious painter Gheorghe Parascan, while in the exhibition room of the Fortress of Gisors, the sculptor Jean-François Glabik will stage his strange and ineffable extravaganzas.
Among the other special moments of this edition, Darwin’s Nightmare, the monumental puzzle-painting by Hubert Duprilot, shown for the first time during last year’s edition, continues to grow, with a second instalment, never shown before and equally striking, while Brigitte Breyton inaugurates her large scale « hut », a structure painted inside and out like a Moldavian monastery, that she created over many months, in the window of an empty shop turned artist studio/gallery, under the gazes of the passers-by who thus became participants in the act of creation.
Like every year, a jury will attribute the Osk’Arts, the festival’s prizes. This year’s jury will be lead by Françoise Monnin, editor-in-chief of Artension, and by Jean-Claude Volot, Abbot of Auberive, a passionate collector and patron.
The opening ceremony will take place on June 30, at 7.15 PM, free entry; visiting hours during the weekend : 10.00 AM – 6.30 PM.