As part of The Extraordinary Film Festival (TEFF), the Galerie du Beffroi is hosting, for its end-of-year exhibition, works selected from the collection of the Art et Margins Musée. Located in the heart of Brussels, in the Marolles, this outsider art museum questions art and its borders. His collection was built up in the mid-1980s with self-taught artists, artistic workshops for people with mental disabilities or in psychiatric settings. Today it consists of more than 4,000 international works produced outside the frequented art paths.
First exhibition presented in Namur, “Pas de side” is an opportunity for the Brussels museum to promote and disseminate raw/outsider creation by reaching an audience uninitiated to this art. The exhibition brings together more than 80 pieces representative of current outsider artistic creation, both Belgian and international. These works highlight themes of outsider art, providing both food for reflection and delight. They reveal the diversity of creative forms and explore various artistic fields: painting, sculpture, assemblage, collage…
The “Pas de side” exhibition is organized at the initiative of the City’s Culture department as part of its support for The Extraordinary Film Festival. Its objective is to encourage events which aim to promote the cultural practice of disabled or impaired people. Through Namur Confluent Culture, the desire is also to support contemporary artists and to make works of art accessible to all. The exhibition is free and activities are offered to schools in November and December.
The Culture department’s Mediation has produced an educational leaflet for families. Questions and fun activities are proposed to understand the works exhibited, what is hidden behind the concepts of art brut, outsider art and differentiated art or even, to create in the style of Dubuffet, Michel Dave or Fernanda Reyns in letting go of his imagination.
Galerie du Beffroi, Rue du Beffroi, Namur, Belgique
