L’Esprit Singulier
12 march — 14 august 2024

L’ESPRIT SINGULIER, presents from March 12th to August 14th, 2024 the Treger Saint Silvestre collection installed at Centro de Arte Oliva, Portugal.

The two founders, Richard Treger and Antonio Saint Silvestre, driven by their desire, their intuition and their emotions, have put together a collection over four decades that bears the mark of their passionate taste for Art Brut.

Deeply touched by the power of decentering, by the subversive radicality of this art, they never stopped updating their heritage. Their collection bears their mark and the creators they brought together demonstrate a disturbing faculty of independence and, as Dubuffet said, a desire “to explore, to experiment, to adopt vehicles different from those that culture has imposed on us (I mean: another look at the world, another interpretation of it, another vocabulary and, consequently, another way of manipulating this vocabulary, therefore another thought).”

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Martine Lusardy, director of Halle Saint Pierre