Jean-Dominique Jacquemond at the International Museum of naïve Art Anatole Jakovsky

From February 25 to March 26, 2017, the city of Nice invites you to discover the "Exhibits" exhibition at the international Museum of Art naive Anatole Jakovsky, revealing major pieces of the Donation Jean - Dominique Jacquemond at the Museum Center of Documentation in 2015.

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, Friday, February 24, 2017 at 7 p.m., Jean-Dominique Jacquemond will sign his book special with Gaston Chaissac daysin September 2016 in Lurlure editions. International naïve Art Museum will be a highlight in the presentation of his new Center Jean - Dominique Jacquemond, archives and documentation center devoted especially to Art Brut and singular.

¨ Pieces of evidence

The exhibition on the first floor of the international Museum of Art naive Anatole Jakovsky meet only works and archival, entered pieces in the collections of the Museum through Jean-Dominique Jacquemond. These pieces of archives will thus demonstrate the importance of the latest enhancements of the Museum for Art Brut and singular: Gaston Chaissac, Anselme Boix-Vives, Barbiero, forest...

At the same time, parts of archives from the Donation Jacquemond realize the uniqueness of the new Centre Jean - Dominique Jacquemond, come enrich the library of the Museum Jakovsky with unpublished documents.

¨ The Centre Jean-Dominique Jacquemond

The center of Documentation of the Museum from of the Donation Jakovsky, which preserves important documents to reconstruct the world history of the naïve Art of the XVIII^th century to the present in the world, the Centre Jean-Dominique Jacquemond will bring to the public the elements essential to the knowledge of the art of Gaston Chaissac with unpublished photographs that attest to his interest in shamanism and everything related to intellectual activity 'out of scope '. You can also follow the painter Anselme Boix-Vives or Michel Macréau creative concerns...

The Museum Center of Documentation and the Centre Jean - Dominique Jacquemond, are available by appointment.

¨Special with Gaston Chaissac days of Jean-Dominique Jacquemond

Two women confide to the historian Jean - Dominique Jacquemond memories of their encounters with the painter Gaston Chaissac. Marinette January has met him in Villapourçon, in the Morvan, where Gaston Chaissac, teenager, lived with her sister, Georgette. Renée Boullier, critical art, met him in the last years of his life, Vix, Vendée, where he settled with his wife. Adolescents 'difficult' to the artist, these intimate stories sketch the singular personality of the artist. They are accompanied by numerous photographic documents, snapshots anonymous a traditional celebration where "Gaston" disguises himself as a Druid, and photographs of Renee, for which the painter agreed, during a special day, of "drop the. mask.

Legend of the Visual: Gaston Chaissac - 1961 - Vix - Photo Renée Boullier - all rights reserved