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Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Outside 'Art'

OUTSIDE ART?

If you were ever wondering what ART really is, and if we are often manipulated by media views and influenced by changing trends and popularity, then sometimes it's good to recoil and stand outside the flurry of this crazy world and reflect.

Only 5 percent of communication between human beings is conscious. The other 95 percent is unconscious communication. Art, as communication, begins in a dark place deep within and begins to be conceived there, like the roots of an underground plant, finding a safe place where it can be nourished and grow. When it is ready to be seen and communicate itself, it will come to be seen in the bright visual light of the world.

So often we are educated on the codes of artist professionals, and yet much of the deeper communication is enamelled over, and it is often artists who come from this deep, raw place that tap into a striking, raw vision that punctuates the heart of some powerful insight.

Where in Paris can we find this deep conception, where art is born straight from its raw nature, unpasteurised and unprocessed by rational education or rules?

And is it possible to find this place in Paris?

The Musée d’Art Naïf et d’Art Brut in Paris is one such place. Much of the art shown is ‘outsider art’ : art which is often left on the edge for being unable to slot into the chronological story of society’s art history.

And yet the art here speaks of those deeper realms in us that move and grow under us, beneath the finesse and order of our civilised, organised surfaces. It inspires and communicates to our deeper sub-conscious, tapping into language that often modern codes, trends and concepts fail to speak to.

Currently the exhibition Raw Vision exhibition 80 artists and 400 works on show now until 22nd August.