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La maison rouge announces Louis Soutter, the tremor of modernity

La maison rouge announces Louis Soutter, the tremor of modernity an exhibition o view 21 June–23 September 2012.


Louis Soutter, Le colis froid, 1938. © Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts.

Louis Soutter, the tremor of modernity proposes a broad and representative view of the work of Swiss artist Louis Soutter (1871–1942). Unjustly unknown to the public at large, he was for decades neglected by art historians.

Because Soutter spent the last twenty years of his life cut off from the world, forcibly admitted to an old people’s home, commentators have been inclined to label his work Art Brut. However, important aspects of his life have been overlooked: his studies of art and music that took him to Geneva, Brussels, and Paris; his wide-ranging culture; and his knowledge of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century art.

More than 250 works have been assembled—many from the collections of the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, but also from private collections which are rarely shown in public—to present each period in Soutter’s work. His singular and marginal output, though produced in such a self-contained environment, echoes stylistic developments among contemporaries such as Georges Rouault and is instilled with a modernity that would leap out at later generations of artists, such as Arnulf Rainer.

Curated by Julie Borgeaud. With the support of Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne and Prohelvetia.

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Paris, France
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