Ezekiel Messou / Art Brut from Africa

Ezekiel Messou (aka Sunnay Abacha) is a beninese sewing machine repairer. Aside this activity, secretly, he draw hundreds of sewing machines in school notebooks. You can find more info about him in the book L'Art Brut dans le monde, published by the Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne. There's a beautiful contribution about Ezekiel wrote by Leo Ramseyer, who is by the way one of the contributor of this blog.

Other Art Brut author in the book: Kashinath Chawan (Inde), Ni Tanjung (Bali), Antonio Roseno de Lima (Brésil), Giovanni Bosco (Sicile), Anarqâq (Grand nord Arctique), Gustav Mesmer (Allemagne).

L’Art Brut dans le monde, sous la direction de Lucienne Peiry, avec une préface de Sarah Lombardi, Lausanne/ Gollion, Collection de l’Art Brut/ Infolio, 2014, 136 pages.

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