Art brut / “outsider art” / alternative & underground comics

Photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet introduces a new photobook that captures the transforming world of Kitengela Glass, an artistic community in the south of Nairobi, Kenya.

The indispensable equine calendar by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

A sonic adventure, where the Coax musicians' collective merges with the vibrant spirit of the Groupe d'Entraide Mutuelle de Montreuil, a mental health peer-help structure nicknamed "Les gens du 110". The ebullient, motley crew explores uncharted sonic territory, inspired by a series of workshops at the GEM, amid sculptures, frescoes, odds and ends, cries and laughter...

La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.

Poetic drawings of Mount Horeb by self-taught Native American artist Joseph E. Yoakum (1891-1972).

The soundtrack to Murnau's Nosferatu composed / improvised / played by the trioof Emmanuelle Parrenin, Quentin Rollet and Jérôme Lorichon. The book accompanying the CD contains four versions of the Nosferatu story by four French artists: Marie-Pierre Brunel, Foolz, Caroline Sury and Alexios Tjoyas.

A partly autobiographical novel that the German surrealist artist and author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) wrote for her ten-year-old daughter in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English.

The first monograph on the Japanese artist of desire.

Inter 143 invites you to explore Mad art, Crip art, disabled art, deaf art, raw art, edible art, situated art and inclusive art: all ways of perceiving, thinking and creating by people with different abilities (physical, intellectual, cognitive, mental, sensory, learning, language and communication skills) or functional diversity.

New approaches to Iannone's unique work.

A record of outsider music (sound objects and voices) made by patients at Le Havre psychiatric hospital, accompanied by Aude Romary on cello and Nosfell.

Issue 37 of Palais de Tokyo magazine addresses the relationships between mental health, contemporary creation, and art and culture venues, in particular through the prism of institutional psychotherapy, a set of practices aimed at disalienating institutions—initially psychiatric ones.

1000 drawings ranked from lightest to darkest, a major work by a rare and powerful artist, a major influence on the current graphzine scene.

A retrospective of Elzo Durt's work since 2017.

This monograph, taking a thematic approach that brings together both words and objects, aims to highlight the extreme inventiveness of Gaston Chaissac.

Aurel Schmidt's drawings.

An overview of Michel Gouéry's surrealist and exuberant artistic output, through a collection of previously unpublished works and documents, as well as detailed notes by some twenty specialists.

Artist, photographer and filmmaker Aradhana Seth's photographic archive of painted signs in India: a visual itinerary through the historical-economic changes of Indian society over the years.

Artist's book.

A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.

The first book on the art-world legend who installed his ephemeral sculptures on the streets of New York's East Village.

First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist.

The indispensable equine bible by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses, is back for a third (and final?) edition.

The inner life of objects according to Erlend Peder Kvam.

The first monographic volume on the graphic work of Belgian artist Petrus De Man.

A wild improvisation session by the Belgian experimental rock band born from the meeting of five artists with mental disabilities, with the guitarist and co-founder of Sonic Youth.

A wild improvisation session by the Belgian experimental rock band born from the meeting of five artists with mental disabilities, with the guitarist and co-founder of Sonic Youth.

Legend of the graphzine and the graphzone, Y5/P5 draws zombies, skeletons, ghost trains, nightmare memories, rubber spiders in the subways at night. This book gathers his famous drawings on coasters, which he often made for a beer or a few cigarettes.

Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves is a project collecting and assembling a series of record sleeves. They were all reworked and customized by unknown artists who used the original cover as a support or a source of inspiration... This collection echoes an intimate, marginal and overlooked experience, which can be replaced in the history of iconography and pop music.

A panorama of the contemporary underground graphic scene, at the crossroads of drawing, comics and illustration, through the exhibitions, the numerous collective projects and the works of more than fifty international artists associated with the history of the mythical Parisian gallery Arts Factory (from Nine Antico to Willem through Charles Burns, Stéphane Blanquet, Hervé Di Rosa, Kiki & Loulou Picasso, Killoffer and Pierre La Police).

The third album of the band formed by four autistic singer-singers, an educator-guitarist more passionate about art brut than educational techniques, and three musicians from the band Moriarty.

The first ever reissue of the piece recorded by Asger Jorn & Jean Dubuffet in 1960-61 in Paris.

The reissue of the compositions for tape and voice of Ursula Bogner (1946-1994), scientist, phamarcian, artist, "outsider" experimental musician fascinated by Wilhelm Reich's work, whose archives were mysteriously discovered Jan Jelinek, compiled by Andrew Pekler.

The story of a therapeutic experience with paper mache initiated in a Geneva shelter and which ended up "outside the walls", illustrating how another psychiatry is possible.

A series of new semi-abstract oil paintings by the American artist.

Jean-Marie Massou's double album presenting, in a raw way, the recordings made at the end of the 1970s in a giant tank.

A collection of Antoine Bernhart's automatic drawings.

Narok (“hell” in Thai) shows the various reinterpretations of Thai hell’s gardens done by a myriad of artists from all over the world.

Antoine Bernhart returns with a new army of skeletons and other infernal creatures to populate his intimate theater of cruelty.

Illustrators / comic book makers / funny people Johnny Ryan and Frédéric Fleury started insulting each other by posting obscene, crude, hilarious drawings to each other. As they are both proud young men and also profoundly disturbed in their brains, they kept this going for, like, six months or something. Finally, here is the book that collects all those comics.

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...

La Tranchée Racine becomes weekly for 42 issues on the occasion of Stéphane Blanquet's exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, from September 2020 to January 2022: a crazy project that intends to constitute a vast panel of art brut, contemporary art and drawing at the rate of one issue per week for more than a year...