FLEURY-JOSEPH CRÉPIN

Exhibition #1, The Museum of Everything, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli (Turin) 2010

Dubuffet and Art Brut, traveling exhibition, Museum Kunst Palast (Dusseldorf, Germany); Collection de l'Art Brut (Lausanne); Museum of Modern Art Lille Metropole Lille (Villeneuve D'Ascq) 2005

Art spirite médiumnique, visionnaire, messages d'outre-monde, Halle Saint-Pierre (Paris) 1999

Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles) 1992

WELL-DIGGER, PLUMBER AND MINER, CRÉPIN WAS A 63-YEAR-OLD SPIRITUALIST WHEN, LIKE HIS FRIEND AND MENTOR VICTOR SIMON, HE INITIATED AN ART PRACTICE FOR THE PURPOSES OF DIVINE HEALING. CRÉPIN BELIEVED THAT HIS GRIDDED POINTILLIST ARCHITECTURES WERE GUIDED BY HEAVENLY FORCES AND WOULD COLLECTIVELY FOSTER WORLD PEACE. THEY SUBSEQUENTLY ACHIEVED THEIR GOAL WHEN THE WAR ENDED IN 1945. THEIR MAKER DIED JUST THREE YEARS LATER, HAVING PRODUCED OVER 350 PAINTINGS.

The Museum of Everything, exhibition catalogue, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin/Milan, 2010

Dubuffet & Art Brut, exhibition catalogue, Museum Kunst Palast & 5 Continents, Düsseldorf/Mailand, 2005

Art spirite médiumnique, visionnaire, messages d'outre-monde, exhibition catalogue, Halle Saint-Pierre & Éditions Hoëbeke, Paris, 1999

Deroeux, Didier, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Idée'Art, Paris, 1999

Tuchman, Maurice and Carol S. Eliel, eds., Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1992

Cardinal, R., "The Art of Enchantment," Raw Vision, 1989

Breton, André, Surrealism and Painting, Harper & Row, New York, 1972

Breton, André, Joseph Crépin, L'Art brut, Compagnie de L'Art Brut, Paris, 1965

Loreau, Max and Jean Dubuffet, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet, Fascicule V: Paysages grotesques, Jean-Jacques Pauvert Editeur, Paris, 1965