Raphaël Lonné
1910-1989 (FRANCE)
JAZZED-UP POSTMAN AND PART-TIME SPIRITUALIST WHOSE JOYOUS MULTITUDES AND LANDSCAPES FED OFF THE ENERGIES OF HIS HOURLY PRACTICE. IT WAS THE SPIRITUALIST MEETINGS IN THE 1950S WHICH LED TO THESE MEDIUMISTIC DRAWINGS, AND LONNÉ GREW CONVINCED THAT HE WAS BLESSED WITH SUPERNATURAL POWERS. LONNÉ’S SHADOWY ORGANIC STRUCTURES ATTRACTED THE INTEREST OF JEAN DUBUFFET, WHO SAW LONNÉ AS AN OUTSTANDING REPRESENTATIVE OF ART BRUT AND BOUGHT HUNDREDS OF DRAWINGS.
The Forest Unbowed and Radovan Ivsic, Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb) 2015
Amicalement brut: Collection Eternod & Mermod, Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole (Villeneuve d'Ascq) 2011
Approaching Abstraction, American Folk Art Museum (New York) 2010
Inner Worlds Outside, traveling exhibition, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundacíon "La Caixa," (Madrid); WhiteChapel Gallery (London); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin) 2006
Art spirite, médiumnique et visionnaire, messages d'outre monde, Halle Saint Pierre (Paris) 1999
Lucienne Peiry and Sarah Lombardi, Collection de l'Art Brut, Collection de l'Art Brut & Skira-Flammarion, Paris, 2012
Barbara Safarova, "Die Spiritistischen Produktionen in der Collection abcd," The Message. Kunst und Okkultismus. Art and Occultism, Kunstmuseum Bochum & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne, 2007
Inner Worlds Outside, exhibition catalogue, Fundacíon "La Caixa," WhiteChapel Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art & Ediciones El Viso, Madrid, 2006
L'Art Brut, Fascicule 1, Compagnie de l'Art Brut, Paris, 1964
"Interview with Bruno Decharme," Art Brut, Collection abcd, eds. Barbara Safarova & Terezie Zemankova, Collection abcd, Paris
