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It brings together a wide range of works from the Lausanne museum\u2019s collection that were created by Swiss artists or artists who worked in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>With Switzerland as the common thread, this publication and the accompanying exhibition highlight the close and lasting ties between the originator of the concept of Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet, and this country. Indeed, it was this close bond that led him to donate his collection of outsider art to the City of Lausanne in order to ensure its preservation and the public\u2019s access to it.<\/p>\n<p>The book includes a foreword by writer Metin Arditi and a presentation by Sarah Lombardi, director of the museum and curator of the exhibition, followed by Jean Dubuffet\u2019s own handwritten notes recounting his trip to Switzerland in search of extra-cultural works in the summer of 1945. This previously unpublished document is reproduced here in facsimile. Other authors provide further analyses of the works: Michel Th\u00e9voz, the museum\u2019s first director; Lucienne Peiry, who succeeded him until 2011; Andreas Steck, president of the Alo\u00efse Corbaz Association; and Astrid Berglund and Eleanor Philippoz, respectively curator and outreach coordinator at the Collection de l\u2019Art Brut.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sarah Lombardi<\/strong> is an art historian and has been director of the Collection de l\u2019Art Brut since 2013. She has focused her efforts on raising the profile of the Lausanne institution\u2019s collection, which comprises 70,000 works. Along with this historical approach, she continues to build the museum\u2019s collection by discovering new outsider artists, to whom she dedicates exhibitions and publications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Metin Arditi<\/strong> is the author of a significant body of work, including <em>Le Turquetto<\/em> (Actes sud, 2011, Jean Giono Prize winner), <em>L\u2019enfant qui mesurait le monde<\/em> (Grasset, 2016, Mediterranean Prize winner), <em>L\u2019homme qui peignait les \u00e2mes<\/em> (Grasset, 2021, Catholic University of the West Award winner), <em>Tu seras mon p\u00e8re<\/em> (Grasset, 2022, Machiavelli Prize winner), and <em>Le danseur oriental<\/em> (Grasset, 2025). He is a Commander of Arts and Letters and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artbrut.ch\/en\/events\/art-brut-in-switzerland-from-the-origins-of-the-collection-to-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exhibition: Collection de l\u2019Art Brut, Lausanne, 27 February \u2013 27 September 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited by Sarah Lombardi. Foreword by Metin Arditi. Texts by Michel Th\u00e9voz, Lucienne Peiry, Andreas Steck, Astrid Berglund, Eleanor Philippoz Art Brut en Suisse is being published to coincide with an exhibition celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Collection de l\u2019Art Brut. 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