Outsider Art in Serlachius Museum Gösta in summer 2015
Serlachius Museum Gösta will show 16 May - 13 September 2015 one of the world´s most important collections of Outsider Art
Korine and Max E. Ammann have collected Outsider Art for nearly 20 years. The Art of Others, an exhibition based on the collection, will be seen in summer 2015 in Serlachius Museum Gösta in Mänttä.
The Korine and Max E. Ammann Collection nowadays has around 5,000 works by 500 artists. Before Mänttä, the exhibition has been seen in Thurgau in Switzerland, Erfurt in Germany, and in Lille and Sables d´Olonne in France. It is curated by the Director of the Thurgau Museum of Fine Arts, Markus Landert. Outsider Art offers a different perspective on art and the world.
The works are characterised by fantasy, curiosity, creativity, sights and visions. The subject might be the politics or ideology of the day, public life, fairy tales, or the unconscious paths of the human mind. Outsider Art is known by many names around the world. In Finland, the name ITE art is used. The abbreviation stands for self-made life.
The artists are self-taught individuals working outside the institutions of art, and who sometimes live isolated in the world. Even so, Outsider Art has also influenced the institutional art world.
The exhibition provides a global background to the Finnish ITE art phenomenon. In connection with the exhibition, Serlachius Museums will arrange in Mänttä a seminar on international Outsider Art in cooperation with the Union of Rural Education and Culture. At the same time, the Union of Rural Education and Culture will bring a group of Finnish ITE artists to the Serlachius Residency.
