#ovartaci

[jareckiworld]

Louis Marcussen “Ovartaci” (1894-1985)—Temple  [gouache and colour pencil on sheet canvas, no date]

[weepingwidar]

Ovartaci (Louis Marcussen) (Danish, 1894-1985) - Puro i Badet (Puro in Bath) (n.d.)

[psikonauti]

Louis Marcussen aka Ovartaci (Danish,1894-1985)

The old main building of the Hospital in Risskov

[divinelodia]

"Can one approach Ovartaci without approaching something within oneself? Something enigmatic perhaps. Why have I, with considerable intensity in the last couple of years, spent so much time investigating the life and work of this artist?

When I first met Ovartaci’s work over fifteen years ago, I was struck by its quality but also its weirdness. I had the sense of encountering something very strange, yet also strangely and uncannily familiar. What hit me was not the allegedly spontaneous character of so-called "art brut", the category invented by Jean Dubuffet to describe the art of the insane. For all its spectacular qualities, I do not believe that true art merely emerges from this somewhat wild, yet very romanticized, productivity described by Dubuffet and others, and found in what they praised as the "anti-culture heroes" of inmates at psychiatric hospitals. But something else hit me when I dove into the production of Ovartaci: the invention of artistic practices in a very barren place. Not only in the sense of the place of the psychiatric cell but at the exact place where something has fallen apart."

[artondoom]

Ovartaci

[brudnopis]

[weepingwidar]

Ovartaci (Louis Marcussen) (Danish, 1894-1985) - Skattehulen (The Treasure Cave) (n.d.)

[jareckiworld]

Louis Marcussen “Ovartaci” (1894-1985) — Transfiguration [gouache and colour pencil on sheet canvas, no date]