The exhibition, produced by 24 ORE Cultura - Gruppo 24 ORE, promoted by the Municipality of Milan Culture with the sponsorship of the Consulate General of Switzerland in Milan and with the Institutional Partner Foundation Deloitte, tells the extraordinary expressive power of Art Brut, an artistic and revolutionary vision that has inspired many contemporary artists and still remains vital today, in the belief that art is for anyone who has a voice to resonate through the expression of unexpected beauty. 

Born in the heart of post-war Paris, far from the halls of art museums and refined salons, Art Brut, whose definition and theorization belong to the French artist and theorist Jean Dubuffet, represents an 'raw', 'pure', 'unfiltered' art.

Through a four-part path, the exhibition presents in a first space a corpus of works and documents that place in a historical perspective the invention of the concept of Art Brut, relative to the work of Jean Dubuffet as an artist, writer, and collector.

Following a selection of works from his explorations attests to the breadth and quality of his research in this field prior to the 1971 donation. A third set of artistic creations from the five continents is linked to the themes of the body and beliefs, both recurring in Art Brut. Due to their subjects and origins, these works and authors resonate particularly well with the Museum's collections.

Specially conceived for the Museum of Cultures, the exhibition is made possible thanks to the collaboration with the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, which possesses an extraordinary collection of over 70,000 works born from the core of the exceptional donation made by Dubuffet to the City of Lausanne in 1971. Drawings, paintings, sculptures, and textile works, which continue to grow today thanks to purchases and donations from new female and male authors.