La Fabuloserie, Art brut museum in Dicy, France.
La Fabuloserie is a museum devoted to art brut, located in the village of Dicy in Charny-Orée-de-Puisaye, and it brings together works by self-taught creators displayed both inside a family home and throughout an outdoor garden. The interior rooms flow naturally into the garden, where large sculptures and three-dimensional works are scattered across the grounds.
The architect Alain Bourbonnais opened La Fabuloserie in 1983, after moving his collection from the Atelier Jacob gallery in Paris to the countryside. That shift gave the works a permanent setting that felt more fitting than a city gallery, with enough space for large outdoor pieces.
The works on display were made by self-taught creators, many of them ordinary workers or farmers who built and shaped things in their spare time, far from any art world. Walking through the rooms and the garden, visitors get a sense of how personal and private these acts of creation often were.
The ground floor of the house is accessible for visitors with reduced mobility, but the upper rooms and parts of the garden involve steps or uneven ground. Sturdy shoes are a good idea for the outdoor section, especially after rain when the paths can be slippery.
The garden holds a work called Manège Petit Pierre, a moving carousel built entirely from scrap metal by a self-taught farmer named Pierre Avezard. The figures and vehicles that turn on it were assembled over many years from salvaged parts, with no training and no plan beyond the maker's own imagination.
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