Jean-Louis Lanoux

Writer, bookseller.

Impassioned by rough art and any creation with the antipodes of the make-pretense.

Collaborate in the reviews which deal with this subject with the point of view of the enthusiastic amateur rather than with that of the cold specialist.

With published many articles in particular on Slavko Kopac, Constant, Philippe Dereux, Chomo, Michel Macréau, Joseph Barbiero, A.C.M., Small Pierre, Roland C. Wilkie, Andy Mac Donald, Simone the Square-Galimard.

Author of forewords for exposures: Gaston Chaissac, Anselme Boix-Sharp and of texts for collective works: Bill Anhang, Fernand Desmoulin, Alexandre Lobanov (Aleksander Pavlovitch Lobanov), Janko Domsic, Richard Greaves, Unica Zürn

Principal contributions in this field

Silence and flow in the work of Michel Macréau (1995)
Fleury Joseph Crepin, Shade and sun (1999)
Notes for abcd, a collection of rough art (2000)
Bill Anhang or the intermittencies of the spirit (2001)
Fernand Desmoulin, medium of itself (2002)
Alexandre Lobanov, a painter with the mounting (2003)
automatic Sirens , on the mental automatism in rough art (2005)
Puppets and Pentacles, the Apocalypse according to Domsic (2005)
Thought of in addition to way in Richard Greaves, anarchitecte (2005)
When Meaning Falters in the catalog of the exposure rough art abcd to Prague (2006)
To read Unica Zürn: contagion of the vacuum in the catalog of the exposure Unica Zürn to the Market St Pierre, Paris (2006)
wonders of the wire in the catalog of the exposure Montreuil, California with the Gallery abcd, Montreuil (2007)

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