Carlo Zinelli – Recto Verso (The Art Brut Collection)
Carlo Zinelli – Recto Verso (The Art Brut Collection) / ISBN 9788874398522 / 192-page paperback (illustrated throughout), 9 x 11 inches, published by 5Continents / Discounted copy with a corner dent
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Carlo Zinelli, called Carlo (1916-1974), is one of the leading figures in Art Brut, along with Aloïse Corbaz and Adolf Wölfli. The book devoted to him by Collection de l’Art Brut, in Lausanne – the public institution that possesses the largest body of work by the Italian artist – gathers together a series of articles on Zinelli by experts in different disciplines. This makes it possible to give due weight to relatively neglected aspects of a rich and diverse opus, such as Carlo’s writings, which mingle with his graphic compositions, well known for their characteristic accumulation of motifs, especially stylised human beings and animals, as well as vehicles.
This bilingual book is lavishly illustrated throughout with reproductions of Zinelli’s paintings and many photographs, several of which are by John Phillips, as well as previously unpublished archive material.
Text in English and French.
Building on the legacy of some five thousand pieces collected by Jean Dubuffet between 1945 and 1971, the Art Brut Collection now owns over sixty thousand works, the fruit of nearly forty years of research. Architecture is the second volume in the series Art Brut – The Collection, published by 5 Continents and the Swiss institution, after Vehicles (2014).
