Collection de l'Art Brut

Willem Van Genk
MEGALOPOLIS

Exhibition
04.03.21 – 27.06.21

Opening
04.03.21, 18:30

The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom
The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom
The Project Asbery Moscow, ca. 1970, oil on fibreboard, 84 × 189 cm, Collection Dolhuys, Haarlem
The Project Asbery Moscow, ca. 1970, oil on fibreboard, 84 × 189 cm, Collection Dolhuys, Haarlem
The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom, Collection Dick Walda
The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom, Collection Dick Walda
The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom
The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom
The Project Asbery Moscow, ca. 1970, oil on fibreboard, 84 × 189 cm, Collection Dolhuys, Haarlem
The Project Asbery Moscow, ca. 1970, oil on fibreboard, 84 × 189 cm, Collection Dolhuys, Haarlem
The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom, Collection Dick Walda
The Trolleybus Station in Willem van Genk's livingroom, Collection Dick Walda
Tube Station, 1970, mixed media and collage, 75 x 124 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Tube Station, 1970, mixed media and collage, 75 x 124 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Parnasky Culture, 1972, oil on fibreboard, 70 x 142 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Parnasky Culture, 1972, oil on fibreboard, 70 x 142 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Moskou, 1966, collage and drawing on paper, 94,5 × 173 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne
Moskou, 1966, collage and drawing on paper, 94,5 × 173 cm, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne photo : AN – Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne

Willem van Genk (1927–2005) is a Dutch Art Brut artist whose works – drawings, paintings and model buses - entered the Lausanne museum in the 1980s, when Jean Dubuffet introduced him to Michel Thévoz, the first director of the Collection de l'Art Brut.

Artist
Willem Van Genk

Curators
Pascale Jeanneret, Sarah Lombardi

Participants
Fondation Willem van Genk, Museum Dr. Guislain, Museum of the Mind | Outsider Art, Stedelijk Museum

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Location

Collection de l'Art Brut
11, av. des Bergières
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
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Website
https://www.artbrut.ch

Published on: 07.12.20