Elevations: the Bruno Decharme and Antoine de Galbert collections, a tribute to Joseph Ferdinand Cheval
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Elevations: The Bruno Decharme and Antoine de Galbert Collections, A Tribute to Joseph Ferdinand Cheval. Hauterives, Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval, 30 April – 30 August 2015. Paris, Lienart, 2015. Text by Barbara Safarova.
To raise up, to build, to stand upright… Might creation be a way of escaping nothingness, of “tickling God”—a form of rebirth? The exhibition Elevations, conceived by collectors Bruno Decharme and Antoine de Galbert as a tribute to Joseph Ferdinand Cheval, suggests as much. Like the visionary rural postman himself, the artists presented here invent grandiose architectures, extravagant physical and mental spaces, and mysterious intimate geographies. Some create entire cities and at times rise above them; others imagine dwellings intended for eternity, opening pathways toward a timeless elsewhere.
Artists exhibited: ACM, Albert, Chelo Gonzalez Amezcua, Dieter Appelt, Julius B., Anibal Brizuela, Mircea Cantor, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Johan Creten, Philippe Dereux, Emmanuel Deriennic, Fernand Desmoulin, John Devlin, Janko Domsic, Roland Fischer, Eugène Gabritschevsky, Alexandro Garcia, Hans-Jörg Georgi, Madge Gill, Thibault de Gialluly, Patrick Gimel, Paul Goesch, Ted Gordon, Hassan, Kim Jones, Michaël Kaliakine, Peter Kapeller, Terao Katsuhiro, Rachel Kneebone, Augustin Lesage, Alexandre Pavlovitch Lobanov, Joseph-Albert-Alfred Moindre, Frédéric Pardo, Léon Petitjean, Giovanni Battista Podestà, John Podhorsky, Émile Ratier, Camille Renault, Achilles G. Rizzoli, Vasilij Romanenkov, Elsa Sahal, Victorien Sardou, Zbynek Semerak, Marcel Storr, Takashi Shuji, Stéphane Tidet, Yuri Titov, Elmar Trenkwalder, Willem van Genk, Josué Virgili, Aloïs Wey, George Widener, Scottie Wilson, Adolf Wölfli, Zizi (Marcel Drouin, known as), and several anonymous works.
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