This issue of the magazine Rhizome (February 2023, n°84), entitled “Artistic Escapes” explores different forms of artistic expression. Some display therapeutic virtues, others have political aims or are recognized in the field of art. Reading this issue encourages us not to seek to circumscribe these expressions a priori to such and such a field, but rather to value them as so many creative escapes.
To discover in particular the interview ofAndre Robillard who explains how “art brut changed his life”. Born in 1931 in Maltournée (Gien), he was first interned in psychiatry when he was young and arrived at the hospital as a patient, a place he has never left since. Living in a psychiatric hospital, he has (almost) always been used to it. He feels free and independent there. His status has evolved: from patient, he has become a worker; care services, an annex accommodation within the premises of the establishment was allocated to him. It was by assembling recycled materials that he began to create his first works: rifles. Spotted by Jean Dubuffet, his artistic approach was recognized and he is today one of the greatest artists of Brut Art.t.
Also in summary
- Let’s dare to create, Gwen Le Goff and Natacha Carbonel
- Hospitality under construction, art and design at the public hospital, Carine Delanoë-Vieux
- What architecture does to care and vice versa, Jean-Philippe Pierron
- Therapeutic mediations, Anne Brun
- Offering musical mediation workshops in psychiatry, Sylvain Durantet
- “Cultural prescriptions®”: therapy through beauty, Laure Mayoud
- “The Mozart effect” and recovery, Philippe Le Ferrand
- Telling yourself through writing, a workshop for migrants, Gwen Le Goff and Natacha Carbonel
- Therapeutic pen, Dilon Ndilou
- Landscapes, Sidonie Han
- “Art brut changed my life”, André Robillard
- Visible arts for emancipation, Nicolas Robin, Vanessa Évrard & David Bartholomeo
Rhizome is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to issues at the interstice of the fields of mental health and precariousness, published by the National Observatory, mental health, vulnerabilities and society (Orspere-Samdarra).
This issue is downloadable (PDF) on the website of l’Orspere-Samdarra and will also be available in a few days on the Cairn.info platform. The paper version will be published in a few weeks.