J. P. Ritsch-Fisch Galerie

Art Brut: sensitivity and adrenaline

After running for collector began in the early 1970s with the Narrative Figuration, Jean-Pierre Ritsch-Fisch founded in 1996 his gallery, specializing in Art Brut and Outsider Art. In 1989, Jean-Pierre Ritsch-Fisch discovered in the Daniel Cordier donation to the Musée National d'Art Moderne, the works of Michel Nedjar and decides to meet and collect Art Brut.

The gallery participates since 1999 in major international fairs and advises for many French and foreign collectors. The ideal or perfect collection does not exist. And that's good! A collection is a meeting with a group of works and therefore of artists with whom our sensitivity is in phase. However, you have to start and the first purchases can be serious or even critical to the future of your collection. In a collection process and during the acquisition of a work, one can feel great adrenaline. But also regret. For any collector or amateur could have a second collection with everything passes.

A collection must be earned!

The Ritsch-Fisch gallery tends to distinguish two types of collections, following the course of each financial arrangements. About contemporary art as art brut, specifically the latter, it is possible to start a beautiful set without breaking the bank. A collection must be earned. Know that it is always somewhere a sacrifice and we always buy above their means. So to make your collection of outsider art, the gallery Jean-Pierre Ritsch-Fisch recommends that you do not stop for ten or twenty artists talked about, but to find a set of all those big and small, that have and is involved in the history of art brut.

Two types collections. The first, to begin the second, to enrich the whole. Speculation are not talking, talking sensation. pleasure talking. Of course, everything is subjective. Agree, disagree. Why him and not another? A choice is a will, here is mine.

But do not forget: have fun with your work!

Jean-Pierre Ritsch-Fisch, director of the gallery.