Reggio Emilia, here is the major exhibition on Jean Dubuffet. For the first time in Italy

Jean Dubuffet, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, will be the protagonist, as we announced on these pages at the end of June, of a retrospective scheduled at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia from November 17, 2018 to March 3, 2019: it is the exhibition Jean Dubuffet, art at play. Matter and Spirit 1943-1985. The exhibition displays 140 works including paintings, graphics, drawings, sculptures, artist’s books and musical, poetic and theatrical compositions, mainly from the Fondation Dubuffet in Paris and the Musée des Arts Décoratif in Paris, as well as from museums and private collections in France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy, as well as a nucleus of 30 works by historical protagonists of art brut, realized in collaboration with Giorgio Bedoni.

The exhibition, the first in Italy dedicated to Dubuffet, is divided into three main sections: the first, from 1945 to 1960, presents all the richness of the cycles around matter, from Mirobolus, Macadam et Cie to Matériologies; the second focuses on the years between 1962 and 1974, with the works of the L’Hourloupe series, born from a drawing executed machinically on the telephone, which will be transformed 12 years later into a monumental sculpture; the last part explores the new horizon of intense chromatism, developed between 1976 and 1984 with the Théâtres de mémoire and the Non-lieux, where the pictorial gesture reveals “no longer the world but the immateriality of the world,” as Dubuffet puts it.

Davide Zanichelli, president of the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, says, “The exhibition that will open at Palazzo Magnani next fall will be dedicated to one of the masters of twentieth-century Europe, a pivotal figure for so many subsequent highly successful authors, as important as he is not as well known to the general public. Jean Dubuffet, a multifaceted artist and radical man of thought, forces us out of the more comfortable patterns with which we usually think about art, beauty and the role of the artist vis-à-vis institutions.”

Jean Dubuffet (Le Havre, 1901 - Paris, 1985) is known for being the first collector of Art Brut, as he called it in 1945, a form of spontaneous artistic expression discovered by the artist among patients in psychiatric hospitals.

Also presented in the exhibition are music videos, documents and the six records published by the Milan gallery of the Naviglio, testifying to his passion for music, artist’s books, sets and costumes from the show Coucou Bazar, a total work of art contemplating painting, sculpture, theater, dance and music, on which Dubuffet worked from 1971 to 1973 and which would also be produced in Turin in 1978, in collaboration with FIAT.

Opening hours: Monday for schools only, Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The ticket office closes one hour before the closing time of the exhibition. Closed December 25 and 31, 2018. Special openings: December 8 and 26, 2018, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., January 1, 2019, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., and January 6, 2019, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets: full 12 euros, reduced 10 euros (for Friends of the FPM; Friends of the Theaters; groups of at least 15 people; military; over 65; disabled; students aged 18 to 26; YoungEr Card holders; ARCI members; Instagramers Italia members; Magnani Rocca Foundation ticket holders, Traversetolo; Fs Group employees; Iren employees; Proteo - Credito Emiliano members), reduced students 6 euros (for students from 6 to 18 years old), free for children up to 6 years old, accompanying person for disabled visitor, registered journalist with valid ID card. Possibility of family tickets with different formulas and 2-for-1 promotion for CartaFreccia holders who reach Reggio Emilia by Frecce within three days of the visit.

For all information you can call 0522 444 446 or visit www.palazzomagnani.it.

Pictured: Jean Dubuffet, Ostracisme rend la monnaie (May 2, 1961; watercolor on paper, 50 x 66 cm; Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs)

Reggio Emilia, here is the major exhibition on Jean Dubuffet. For the first time in Italy

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