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ART & DISABILITY Sue Steward traces the development and impact of special workshops and studios

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28 MINIATURE MASTERPIECES UTNE INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD

Gary Santaniello introduces the obsessive detail of Dalton Ghetti

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Michèle Perez brings us up to date with the phenomenal artist singulier from France

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FLOWERINGS OF FOLKLORE Sara Ugolini introduces the spontaneous Italian artist Maria Concetta Cassarà

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REVIEWS Exhibitions and books

RAWNEWS MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING

BETHLEM GALLERY

September 2 – October 25, 2011 Exhibition #4 will be Britain’s first international showcase of artists with developmental disabilities. The creative work of 50 artists will be on display, with art ranging from intimate works on paper to giant three-dimensional creations. The museum will curate all of the Selfridges’ store-front windows along Oxford Street and Orchard Street, as well as their entire exhibition hall space. At the same time, an initiative will be launched called The Workshops of Everything. Its aim is to create studio space for artists with disabilities across the whole of Britain. Other events include talks, screenings and debates.

Museum of Everything, Selfridges & Co., 400 Oxford Street, London W1A 1AB, UK. t: +44 (0)20 7957 5325 www.musevery.com

September 1–3, 2011 Eternal Maternal marks the 30th anniversary of Bethlem Royal Hospital’s Perinatal Unit with artwork by Bethlem artists and patients.

October 6 – November 4, 2011: Unescorted #3 presents artwork and music by current patients from River House, Bridge House and Bethlem’s Forensic Adolescent Unit.

November 10 – December 2, 2011: One of Many will show work by Kim Noble, an artist who lives with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Artwork featured has been produced by several of her different personalities.

The Bethlem Gallery, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 3BX, UK. t: +44 (0)203 228 4101 www.bethlemgallery.com Maureen Scott

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OPEN GALLERY

BEN WILSON

November 5–26, 2011 In Painted Tales, self-taught artist Sue Prince makes connections between people and environment through pictures and storytelling.

Gallery at 12, No. 12 High Street, Eccleshall, Staffordshire ST21 6BZ, UK. t: +44 (0)1785 850 757 www.galleryat12.co.uk www.beechenhill.co.uk

STAFFS GALLERY ALBERT LOUDEN October 6–10, 2011 Art London includes works by celebrated British outsider artist Albert Louden whose exhibtion follows at Whitford Fine Art (Oct 1121). Art London, London Gate, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3, UK. Whitford Fine Art, 6 Duke Street, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6BN. artlondon.net whitfordfineart.com

November 5–19, 2011 In AJ Tracy’s Sugar Sachets, Alex Tracy produces miniatures in acrylic on discarded wrappers and cartons, coupling the intricacy of his image with the technical merits of industrial packaging. OPEN Ealing, 113 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London W5 5TL, UK. t: +44 (0)208 579 5558 www.openealing.com

September 27 – November 20, 2011 The Pastel drawings of Ben Wilson will be on display Upstairs at The Nellie Dean of Soho, expect a riot of colour and an exploration of the glories of nature.

Upstairs at The Nellie Dean of Soho, 89 Dean Street, London, W1D 3SU, UK. t: +44 (0)7761 733683 www.DiscoverOutsiderArt.com

Sue Prince

Albert Louden

Alex Tracy

Ben Wilson

ART & DISABILITY With the opening of the Museum of Everything’s London exhibition, featuring the work of artists with disabilities, Sue Steward traces the development and impact of special workshops and studios.

The Museum of Everything is launching Britain’s first major

laboration in the history of the store.

survey of art from progressive studios and workshops for

Museum of Everything founder, James Brett, sug-

self-taught artists with developmental and other disabili-

gests that art from progressive studios has been under-

ties. The exhibition will feature over 200 works from these

appreciated, not only by the art world, but by those within

organisations in one of the most visible locations in Lon-

the field of self-taught art. The reason, he suggests, is a

don: the department store, Selfridges, where the work will

simple misunderstanding of their collaborative nature.

occupy 15,000 square feet and form the largest art col-

Progressive studios, he says, do not teach. They simply

above Thomas Schlimm, Untitled, 2005, oil pastel on paper, 35 x 50 cm, 13.8 x 19.7 ins, Atelier HPCA, Germany. below Thomas Schlimm, Der Mann mit dem Messer, oil pastel on paper, 2005, 70 x 200 cm, 27.5 x 78.7 ins, Atelier HPCA, Germany.

Danielle Jacqui: La Maison de Celle Qui Peint and the Colossal d'Art Brut Michèle Perez brings us up to date with the phenomenal artist singulier from southern France

above The exterior of Maison de Celle Qui Peint, Danielle Jacqui’s house in Pont-del’Etoile in Provence, France. opposite Window detail. previous page Interior detail.

Danielle Jacqui was born on February 2, 1934, but shown in France, Japan, Switzerland (including at the it could be said that 1970 marked the beginning of a

Collection of Art Brut, Lausanne) and the United States

fresh life for her. It was then that she embarked on a new

(‘Love: Error and Eros’ at the Museum of American

professional adventure as a brocanteur, selling second

Visionary Art, 1998).

hand goods, and a personal artistic pursuit of her highly personal and unusual art.

The 1980s were also an important decade for Jacqui. She met Raymond Reynaud, another artist of

The early 1970s were a founding period for

remarkable talent who became the leading figure in the

Jacqui. She met Claude Leclercq, her second husband,

loose grouping known as artists singuliers, and with the

who became a close companion in her artistic career until

help of Dr Jean-Claude Caire and his wife Simone, who

his death in 2000. A fellow brocanteur and a man with a

published a mass of information about self-taught French

rich personal history, Claude shared with Jacqui, a ‘state

artists in their journal Bulletin d’Ozenda, was able to

of complementarity and mutual enrichment’. The period

befriend and exchange ideas with a network of other

from 1973 onwards marked Jacqui’s participation in the

artists in southern France. The 1980s also saw Jacqui

photos: Bernard Consoloni.

first of what was to become a long line of both group

begin her masterful embroideries, each of which

www.organugamme.org

and solo exhibitions. Since then, her work has been

required three years of work.

Miniature Masterpieces Gary Santaniello introduces the obsessive detail of Dalton Ghetti

above Dalton Ghetti, close up at work.

Dalton Ghetti works in an unconventional medium, of the strain on his eyes, Ghetti requires months, on an almost unimaginable scale. Small wonder, then, that his creations defy easy description.

sometimes even years, to complete individual pieces.

Alphabet, simple block letters atop a line of 26

Ghetti, 50, creates unforgettable works of art

idiosyncratic pencil stubs, took more than 2 years to

on the tips of discarded pencils, some of them stubs,

finish. Chain, 23 independently moving and impossibly

working on a shaft of graphite a mere 2.2 mm in

small links, 5 cm long, connecting the top and bottom of

diameter. Using only a razor blade and a sewing needle,

a pencil, took almost 3 years. The elegant Giraffe, just

with no magnification, he painstakingly sculpts objects

2.5 cm tall, took 18 months.

from everyday life that are simple, clever and imaginative,

As a child in school in his native Brazil, Ghetti

all incredibly small but with exquisite detail and precision.

sharpened his pencils with a razor blade he carried

Working little more than an hour a day because

with him. Soon, using different small tools, he carved

left Key. right Mailbox.

left Heart. right Heart on chain.

Rediscovering an Imaginary Pop Music Superstar Tom Patterson reviews the lost-and-found homemade record-cover art of Mingering Mike

above Some of Mingering Mike’s record labels.

Stories about discoveries of previously unknown related dreams. He lost track of the work years later, bodies of outsider art have become so familiar over the

after being diverted from his creative path, but

last few decades that the pattern is now a regular art-

fortunately – and unlike so many self-taught artists

world paradigm. Were it not for such discoveries, artworks produced by many visually creative individuals who operate outside the art system and do not regard themselves as artists would likely remain forever unknown.

That would have almost certainly been the

whose art is belatedly rediscovered – he remained very much alive when an appreciative collector stumbled onto the lost work.

The impetus for Mike’s art was his fantasy career as a massively popular singer of soul and funk tunes. As a teenager living in

fate of works by the artist known as Mingering Mike. This

Washington, D.C., in the late 1960s, he began a prolific

urban African-American man was a young amateur singer

songwriting practice that, according to his estimate,

and songwriter when he began making drawings and

eventually yielded more than 4,000 songs in those

related art objects as an outgrowth of his private music-

genres. He tape-recorded himself singing many of them,

sometimes with vocal accompaniment by a male cousin

grooves. He enclosed the discs in the homemade

whom he nicknamed ‘the Big D’. The resultant

sleeves, some of which he even slipped into cellophane

audiotapes consisted of spirited vocals rhythmically

shrink-wrap packaging with affixed price stickers.

underpinned by makeshift percussion. He made no

The self-billing he conceived for most of these

effort to publish his songs or have them

idiosyncratic artworks stemmed from whimsical

commercially released, but he extended his

wordplay in which he fused the terms

superstar fantasy to the packaging of his

‘mingling’ and ‘merging.’ The combination

music, creating hand-drawn, hand-lettered, one-of-a-kind covers and sleeves for the ersatz

above Boogie Down at the White House

yielded the catchy but meaningless gerund ‘mingering,’ hence ‘Mingering Mike’. He envisioned

vinyl records he also made. These ‘records’ consisted of

this alter-ego as such an entertainment success that he

nothing more than cardboard discs with circular, pasted-

was able to sponsor the careers of other musical artists,

on labels containing handwritten song titles surrounded

including his two singing-partner cousins and a host of

by hand-drawn spiral patterns mimicking hair-thin record

non-existant solo singers and singing groups – Audio

’MIKE’S FIGURE DRAWING IS REMINISCENT OF COMICBOOK SUPERHEROES’

Andrei’s Artistic Automobiles D.B. Denholtz introduces the striking models of Andrei Palmer

Andrei Palmer’s funky and audacious scratch-built light up, door handles, hand-sewn fabric interiors – all

‘PALMER PREFERS USING HIS MEMORY TO LOOKING AT PICTURES IN MAGAZINES AND BOOKS’

cars are examples of a unique mind vigorously

built onto a frame made from scrap wood, chicken wire

exercising and rearranging the million details of an

and wooden dowels.

everyday object and reassembling it into something

Their size, at an average of 25 to 36 inches in

wholly its own. An unschooled, untaught thing of

length, is also surprising, because the works have a

beauty – in other words, traditional ‘outsider’ work from

physicality and heft that seem to belie the feeling that

a new generation.

these are fragile cardboard pieces which may come apart

‘Andrei’s Artistic Automobiles’, as he has titled

at the seams at any moment. In fact, when handled, the

his output, are hand-formed from recycled cardboard,

cars are extremely solid – even a little heavier than they

covered in spray-painted glossy poster board and further

appear.

detailed with metallic paper that he cuts and shapes to

Andrei Palmer was born in 1987 in Ceausescu’s

look like chrome; with clear plastic for windshields,

Romania and his earliest years, from birth to 6 years,

sometimes vinyl tops, pieces of cut mirror for side- and

were spent in a series of orphanages. Enduring neglect

rear-view mirrors, headlights and brake lights that really

and abuse, the children of such environments are often

Flowerings of Folklore Sara Ugolini introduces spontaneous Italian artist Maria Concetta CassarĂ

her youth there before moving to Bologna. In Mirto, the

undulating way. More than autonomous scenes having

village outside Messina where she comes from – like

their own narrative development, Cassarà’s paintings

everywhere in Sicily – religious rites and beliefs have

contain elements to be admired, especially the trappings

never lacked occasions to openly express themselves.

that exist in the focussing of the observing eye.

They come into contact with all working environments

above All works are Untitled, 50 x 35 cm, 19.7 x 13.8 ins. centre Maria Concetta Cassarà at home, 2011, photo: Matteo Cuccodrillo. opposite Untitled, 70 x 50 cm, 27.5 x 19.7 ins.

It is less of a vocation for storytelling and

from local craftsmanship to the neighbourhood pastry

action that expresses itself in the work of Maria

shop, where, for example, the form of bread known as

Concetta, than an enjoyment of the staging found in, for

varba (Saint Joseph’s beard), with its unusually luxuriant

example, the arrangements of votive altars and surfaces.

locks and full beard, is markedly reminiscent of the male

It is difficult not to think of the customs linked with ritual

visages in Maria Concetta’s paintings.

celebrations in southern Italy, such as the typically

Like sugarcraft figurines or statuettes in a

Sicilian practice of setting up shelved constructions and

manger, the animals painted by Cassarà have rigid limbs

tables for the so called ceni i San Giuseppe (suppers of

and are hoisted onto a pediment. The pedestal is

Saint Joseph). In different regions of Sicily on March 18th,

straight and horizontal, or sometimes curved in an

the eve of the religious festival, numerous families

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