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Virtual Insights: Francesc Tosquelles–Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut

April 16, 2024 Join us for a conversation about the making of the exhibition Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, which explores for the first time in the United States the legacy of Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles. The four curators will walk us through the exhibition’s artworks, archival documents and films, opening up a new window on psychiatry and its connections to art, literature and French theory.   In dialogue with AFAM’s Senior Curator of Self-Taught Art & Art Brut Valérie Rousseau,  Joana Masó and Carles Guerra will first introduce us to the history of Saint-Alban psychiatric hospital in Southern France, which also became during World War II a refuge for political dissidents and intellectuals. In this “asylum-village,” Tosquelles pioneered revolutionary psychiatric practices (that came to be known as “institutional psychotherapy”) with the aspiration to “cure” mental institutions. The curators will reveal the extraordinary variety of materials included in the Museum’s gallery, including artworks produced by Saint-Alban’s patients (among them, Auguste Forestier, Marguerite Sirvins, Aimable Jayet) and various figures central to this history, like Antonin Artaud and Jean Dubuffet—whose conceptualization of “art brut” in 1945 was impacted by Saint-Alban’s creative output. Valérie Rousseau will close the program with Edward Dioguardi, Anthony Petullo Foundation and Weiler Curatorial Fellow. They will examine the history of mental health in the United States through the works of North American artists—among them Joseph Roth, Myrllen, Martín Ramírez, Judith Scott, and Gabriel Mitchell.