Art Brut From Japan, Another Look

Sarah Lombardi is an art historian and has been director of the Collection de l'Art Brut since 2013. Since her appointment as head of this Lausanne institution, she has placed emphasis on enhancing the prestige of the museum's collections by creating biennials of Art Brut (theme-based exhibitions present works exclusively from the institution's collection) and a new series of publications titled Art Brut, the Collection. She has worked on exhibition catalogues from the museums' own collection, and has contributed articles on Art Brut for other exhibitions catalogues and specialised reviews. She also writes the series of articles L'Art Brut begun in 1964 by Jean Dubuffet, and in November 2016 edited the Almanach de l'Art Brut, a project launched by Jean Dubuffet in 1948, a seminal work in the history of Art Brut. Edward M. Gómez is a journalist, art critic, exhibition curator, and a specialist in modern art and Japanese culture, in particular on Art Brut. He has written for The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, S. F. Gate/San Francisco Chronicle, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, salon.com, ARTnews, Art in America, Art & Antiques, Art + Auction, Metropolis, Interview, Modern Painters, Condé Nast Traveler, Eye (London), The Japan Times, Ikebana Ryusei. Tadashi Hattori is an associate professor of art history and theory at the Konan University in Kobe, Japan, and a former curator at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe. He writes for numerous publications and curates many exhibitions about Art Brut and arts by the disabled. He collaborates with institutions for Art Brut in Europe such as abcd Art Brut, Adolf Wölfli-Stiftung, and Musée de la Création Franche.