Anselme Boix-Vives

May 25 – September 5, 2019

For most of his life Anselme Boix-Vives (1899–1969) ran a vegetable shop in the village of Moûtiers in the French Savoy. Alongside his work, Boix-Vives developed a pacifist worldview, wrote several manifestos and courted the world's leaders with message of his worldview.

In 1962 Anselme Boix-Vives began to paint, encouraged by his son Michel. For seven years until his death in 1969, he created about 2,400 paintings and drawings. He was a self-made painter and he through his painting and drawings he expressed his own visual world and the pursuit of peace on earth. The color scale is clear, and figures and motives often have the shape of people, animals and nature.

Boix-Vives is today recognized as one of the established artists in French Art Brut. In the exhibition one hundred paintings and drawings are shown for the first time in Sweden. Two of the artist's grandchildren, Philippe Boix-Vives and Julie Boix-Vives are also taken part in the exhibition with each artistic work, where they visit their grandfather and his visual world.