Fleury-Joseph Crépin
1875-1948 (FRANCE)
FETED BY ANDRÉ BRETON AND OTHERS, CRÉPIN WAS A 63-YEAR-OLD SPIRITUALIST WHO, LIKE HIS ASSOCIATE VICTOR SIMON, HAD INITIATED AN ART PRACTICE FOR THE PURPOSES OF DIVINE HEALING. THIS FORMER PLUMBER CLAIMED THAT HIS GRIDDED POINTILLIST ARCHITECTURES WERE GUIDED BY HEAVENLY FORCES AND WOULD COLLECTIVELY FOSTER WORLD PEACE. THEY ACHIEVED THEIR GOAL WHEN THE WAR ENDED IN 1945. THEIR MAKER DIED THREE YEARS LATER, HAVING PRODUCED OVER 350 PAINTINGS.
Exhibition #1, The Museum of Everything, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli (Turin) 2010
Dubuffet and Art Brut, traveling exhibition, Museum Kunst Palast (Dusseldorf, Germany); Collection de l'Art Brut (Lausanne); Museum of Modern Art Lille Metropole Lille (Villeneuve D'Ascq) 2005
Art spirite médiumnique, visionnaire, messages d'outre-monde, Halle Saint-Pierre (Paris) 1999
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles) 1992
The Museum of Everything, exhibition catalogue, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin/Milan, 2010
Dubuffet & Art Brut, exhibition catalogue, Museum Kunst Palast & 5 Continents, Düsseldorf/Mailand, 2005
Art spirite médiumnique, visionnaire, messages d'outre-monde, exhibition catalogue, Halle Saint-Pierre & Éditions Hoëbeke, Paris, 1999
Deroeux, Didier, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Idée'Art, Paris, 1999
Tuchman, Maurice and Carol S. Eliel, eds., Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1992
Cardinal, R., "The Art of Enchantment," Raw Vision, 1989
Breton, André, Surrealism and Painting, Harper & Row, New York, 1972
Breton, André, Joseph Crépin, L'Art brut, Compagnie de L'Art Brut, Paris, 1965
Loreau, Max and Jean Dubuffet, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule V: Paysages grotesques, Jean-Jacques Pauvert Editeur, Paris, 1965
