'The Museum of Everything's recent announcement, calling all outsider artists to submit work to their exhibition #2 at Tate Modern 14.-16. May 2010, is the opportunity I have been waiting for to write about my all time favorite art museum which closed its doors on its first exhibition in Primrose Hill earlier this year.
Dandy Primrose hill with its location just north of Regent's Park and with it's clear view of central London, an unlikely place for the likes of the Museum of Everything, comprising 500 unregarded and obscure works by untrained artists: nuns, savants, janitors, psychics, madmen.
The space, seemingly neglected, cramped and labyrinth-like (featuring artists' work neatly presented in rooms themed by styles or wholly dedicated to a single artist) - suddenly disentangling itself and becoming a vast room with paintings and drawings from floor to ceiling. It's a breathtaking display governed by no imposed order again collapsing into narrow passage ways and hidden rooms underneath staircases.
It is by miracle of the unlikely, that Exhibition #1 at Primrose Hill leaves you with a true sense of discovery by introducing you to so many works of art, even masterpieces and artists you never knew and that you could not imagine in any other context than this one.
Some artists:
Louis Wain
Henry Darger
Aleksander Pavlovitch Lobanov
Here's the call for entries from the website:
'Are you a marginal or self-taught artist? Do people call your work strange, amateurish, obsessive, even ugly? Have you received a divine calling to depict new worlds? Or discovered a cache of anonymous doodlings? Or are you perhaps an artist with a disability, whose brilliant creativity has been undeservedly overlooked?'
Exhibition #1 is now on in Torino, Italy it's an extended show with 800 works.
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