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pictures are screenprints from the videos in the documentation |
Outsider Environments Europe
an inventory and documentary of art environments in Europe created by non-professionals
January 22, 2021
Alexei Zhuchenko, Зоопарк / Zoo
January 15, 2021
Nadine Mehly, Maison colorée / Colorful house
pictures courtesy of Sophie Lepetit, from her weblog |
a wall with multi-colored painted stones |
multicolored items on the ground along the fence |
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a close up photo of a number of masks |
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a text on a wall |
Architecturally, the site has seen some changes since the beginning of the decorations.
January 08, 2021
Ritva Nurmi, Navetta Galleria / Navetta Gallery
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this picture and the next two from the FB page of the Kyyhkylä hotel (name of photographer not mentioned) |
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this picture depicts "Mop-Mimmi", a creation made of a cleaning mop, plastic bottles and doll legs. |
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an imaginatively dressed young musician plays a (real) accordion |
Built in 1630, this estate over the centuries has undergone many changes, like it served in the 1920s as a rehabilitation center for soldiers who had become disabled during the Finnish war of independence in 1918.
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exterior of the barn this picture and the next four screenprints from the video in the documentation |
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entrance of the gallery |
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interior of the gallery |
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December 28, 2020
Les Guallino, Jardin des plus de deux milles coeurs / Garden of more than two thousand hearts
all pictures courtesy of Sophie Lepetit, from her weblog |
Referred to by the locals as Les Guallino, the couple Anne Poiré and Patrick Guallino has enriched the French municipality of Belmont de la Loire with an art environment that features the bright site of life.
Life and works
Patrick Guallino was born on May 10, 1943 in Uzès. Later he would live in Cannes
At a young age he became interested in visual art and at the age of fourteen he was already working with oil paint and chalk.
a colorful character in the garden |
He continued to do so until at age 25 he was upset by the Paris student revolt, May 1968, and he destroyed or burned all of his work, except a few paintings kept by his mother..
It was not until more than ten years later, in 1982, that he resumed the visual arts. He was and remained a non-professional artist without any art education.
mosaïque du tapis aux pierres précieuses (2011) (gemstone carpet mosaic) |
When I met Patrick, painter, sculptor -I am more of a woman of words, rhythms, music and vocabulary- his studio immediately seduced me. And the man.
I arrived in his small village, and we have never left each other: since then, acrylic, vowels, pastel, consonants, ink intermingle.
Anne and Patrick got married and in 1990 they settled in Belmont de la Loire to live in a former tissue factory. Belmont is a small community of some 1500 inhabitants, located in a rural setting, north-west of Lyon.
Anne and Patrick in front of some of the architectures in their garden |
They set up a space of the former factory as a studio and engaged themselves both personally and as a couple with artistic activities.
Anne Poiré would mainly focus on the literary craft and publish a large series of books (an overview of the book covers can be found on her weblog). Patrick Guallino focused on visual art, initially creating small sculptures, later working on paintings (here is an overview of the development of his work).
an example of a decoration |
The other event is of a completely different order, but from an artistic perspective just as interesting.
view of the site through an opening in a wall |
a view of some architectures in the garden |
The decorations are mostly of an elementary nature.
a series of faces |
enclosing wall with decorated panels |
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tower with a bench |
sculptures around a pond; in the background a sculpted gate |
decorations on top of the sculpted gate |
a stained glass wall (on top of an old wall dating back to the 12th century |
December 18, 2020
Lasse Martikainen, Veistospuisto / Sculpture park
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sculpture of an Unicorn this picture and the next six courtesy of Minna Tuuva |
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the fountain in the garden |
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sculpture of a Minotaurus |
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sculpture of a worm |
This creation was made from old heating pipes used in the greenhouse and from discarded gutters of the garden center's buildings.
December 10, 2020
José Leitao, Casa Leitao (arrangement de sculptures à l'intérieur/indoor arrangement of sculptures)
The wooden sculptures depicted in above picture are part of collection of some 400 wooden creations kept indoors in a workshop that's part of a house in the community of Ailly-sur-Somme, France.
Life and works
Also due to the manner of presentation, this extensive collection of wooden sculptures, created by José Leitao (1938-2020), can be seen as an art environment.