The exhibitions

Aloïse. Le ricochet solaire

From 2 June to 26 August 2012
Opening reception Friday 1 June 2012

Interned for schizophrenia in 1918, Aloïse Corbaz from Vaud, called simply Aloïse (1886–1964), was thirty-two when her ties with her past were cut. Previously a dressmaker, a children's governess in Potsdam and an anti-militarist, she retired from the world, taking with her scraps of a wide-ranging biblical, literary and musical culture on her flight inwards. Her delirium gradually settled and took shape as a result of her writing, painting and drawing. For more than forty years she produced a gigantic body of creative work that she developed like a richly coloured mantle on increasingly large supports, from the pages of sketchbooks to rolls of paper several metres long.
Conceived as a stroll through the artist's universe, the exhibition at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts enthrals our senses, by means of Aloïse's drawings, and requests our imagination on this journey to the centre of human thought. Do not miss this unique opportunity to discover a dense, complex and erotic world sumptuously inhabited by flowers, emperors, queens and singers.
Held in concomitance with the publication online of the electronic catalogue raisonné of Aloïse's work, to which access is unrestricted, compiled by Jacqueline Porret-Forel and Céline Muzelle (www.aloise-corbaz.ch), this vast retrospective brings together more than 160 works that give a summary look at the different periods of the artist's production. The exhibition has been made possible by exceptional loans from a number of Swiss and European collectors, and from the Kunstmuseum in Solothurn, which has lent a large number of paintings and drawings from its collection of Aloïse Corbaz's works belonging to the cantonal collections of Vaud.

Exhibition at the Collection de l'Art Brut from 2 June to 28 October 2012

The admission ticket to one of the museums gives free access to the second one.