Gallery in Colmar. Raw and direct at Espace Lézard

They are exploring their worlds. More than a dozen adults with disabilities at the Cap Cornely residence in Mulhouse, run by Adapei Papillons blancs d’Alsace, show their work at Lézard in Colmar. Crude art in essence. It’s called L’atelier du Cloakroom. “This is in no way a place for learning or a place for therapy,” explains Celine Martin, reviewer for The Workshop with Fanny Munch. “We accompany these people on a personal business. Nothing is imposed. They make suggestions and we pull the strings.”

They sometimes work in pairs

Thus they have time to “evolve their worlds”. Often, very concrete subjects, such as Houses Surrounded by Nature by Daniel, who renders paintings of incredible precision, or Christian Guitars, a rock and roll lover, who transforms works into complete abstraction in which their sensibilities contrast. The authors come to light. It is touching and wonderful.

They frequent the L’atelier du Vestiaire regularly, and explore mixed techniques with which they compose with enthusiasm: felt-tip pens, pencils, crayons or acrylic paint pens. They sometimes work in pairs, “equals”, with students from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin. Another partnership, the one that made it possible with artist David Allart to create a derivative of the famous game “Memory”, this time “Memoart”, printed on screen in forty copies. Lithographs are also to be discovered, always with this characteristic freshness and straightforwardness.

Jean, for his part, talks about love. The love he feels for Rose Marie and unfolds all of his passionate fantasy on large formats filled with figures, animals, objects, and hearts. The interest is also to present these works outside the walls of the medical and social context. And in the lizard they breathe. They rustle. They shine like the sun.

The sun shines brightly , to 14 February at Le Lézard, 12 route d’Ingersheim in Colmar. free entry. It will open on Friday at 6:30 pm.