It is with deep sadness that the Collection de l'Art Brut announces the death of  french Art Brut author Charles Boussion in March 9, 2021.

Charles Boussion (1925 - 2021), also known as "Cako," began painting at the age of fifty, after a deep depression. His artistic world was inspired by the icon tradition, from which he took on certain iconographic codes, endowing a series of portrayals of "Virgins with Child" with the features of his wife or his daughter. His works also reference family travel memories and allusions to his Basque origins. Others teem with abstract motifs reminiscent of Moresque goldsmith art and manuscript illumination. Charles Boussion uses different sorts of felt-tip pens, pens and highlighters. He also often photocopies a piece, in order to rework it.

His works were first exhibited in 2018 at the Collection de l'Art Brut (Acquisitions 2012 - 2018), and are also on view through May 24, 2021 in the exhibition Art Brut: Frame Work. They are to be seen in the next Art Brut biennale: Croyances ( December 17, 2021 - April 24, 2022).

photo Philippe Lespinasse, Archives of the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne

 

Publish Date: 11.03.2021