Bruno Decharme: “Art brut authors speak to us, touching the deepest part of our being”
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View of the exhibition "Art Brut. In the Intimacy of a Collection. Decharme Donation to the Centre Pompidou" at the Grand Palais, Paris. Didier Plowy / Grand Palais/RMN 2025
Donor of 1,100 works of outsider art to the Centre Pompidou, filmmaker Bruno Decharme recounts his collection, exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris until September 21, 2025.
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I subscribeLa Croix: How did your collection of outsider art, now exhibited at the Grand Palais, come about?
Bruno Decharme: In 1976, I visited the collection of art brut donated to the city by Jean Dubuffet in Lausanne. This discovery was a shock. I was studying philosophy at the time with fabulous professors, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan , Félix Guattari, Michel Foucault, who were deconstructing society. And suddenly, I found in these works all the great questions that we address in philosophy, a relationship to mystery, to the invisible, to otherness that overwhelmed me.
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