Walking in the main street of the wonderful Croix-Rousse district of Lyon (France), we come across a timeless garden made of shells, flowers and fantastic shapes.
LE VILLAGE DE MASGOT
Masgot is a pretty and tiny village in the commune of Fransèches (Creuse department) in the center of France.
UTOPIX
Utopix is the work and passionate path of Jo Pillet and his family.
It is a live in sculpture, exhibition spaces (indoor and outdoor), it is sculptures-games.
GORODKA: between sustainability and art
44-51-24-38 N 1-14-06-27-E
This is the GPS code to locate Gorodka, a place that does not appear on maps. However, it really exist.
ORESTE FERNANDO NANNETTI
A shy mood, Nannetti told to be in contact with electrical and magnetic waves, which sent him telepathically signal that he transcribed every day.
PALAIS IDÉAL DU FACTEUR CHEVAL
Real self-taught, Ferdinand Cheval devotes 33 years of his life to build a dream palace in his garden alone.
NICOLAI TARASYUK
Nicolai is a folk artist who make sculptures from wood (the dimension are 20/30 cm – 8/12 inches), depicting all kinds of people in every situations, engaged in social or professional activities.
THE LITTLE CHAPEL
THE LITTLE CHAPEL(1878-1951 | UNITED KINGDOM) The Little Chapel of Les Vauxbelets was rebuilt twice before its creator was satisfied with his work. Brother Déodat joined the Guernsey Christian Schools in 1913 and devoted his life to building a miniature replica of the Basilica and Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. The first chapel measured less than […]
FIORENZO PILIA
The farmer Fiorenzo Pilia had no formal and artistic education, but at the age of sixty he began making sculptures with residual material, resin, scraps and waste.
PIERRE RAPEAU
Pierre Rapeau, a biology teacher, was born in the Perigord area of France. One day, tired of the world, he returned in the local forest, where he had a lively memory of the walks he made with his grandmother, collecting mushrooms and herbs.
POLITICAL SCULPTURE GARDEN
M.T. Liggett’s brightly painted metal cartoon figures dominate the roadside along a busy highway near Mullinville, Kansas, for almost a mile.
THE HEIDELBERG PROJECT
THE HEIDELBERG PROJECTTYREE GUYTON(1955 | USA) Having grown un on Heidelberg Street and witnessed the tragic effect of the Detroit riot as a child, Tyree Guyton set about cleaning up the decaying area with the help of his grandfather Sam Mackey, his former wife Karen, and neighborhood children. In 1986, using the refuse they collected, […]
SALVATION MOUNTAIN
SALVATION MOUNTAINLEONARD KNIGHT(1931-2014) | USA Leonard Knight began painting and creating his Salvation Mountain after a failed attempt to fly the world’s largest balloon, which he had spent ten years trying to make. Knight decided to stay on in the launch area, in a part of the desert known as “Slab City”. Using hundreds of […]
THE BEER CAN HOUSE
In 1968, tired of mowing his lawn, retired railway upholsterer John Milkovisch (1912-1988) concreted over his garden and embedded thousands of marbles, buttons, rocks and pieces of metal in the paths, the walls and the wooden fence.
JUNKERHAUS
JUNKERHAUSKARL JUNKER(1850-1912 | GERMANY) Karl Junker devoted his life to a single visionary project, constructing a heavily ornamented house at Lemgo, near Hanover, Gemany. After studying architecture in Munich, Junker used money he had received from an inheritance to build the house. He led a solitary life living alone for 22 years, even though the […]
GUERINO GALZERANO
GUERINO GALZERANO(1922-2002 | ITALY) Guerino Galzerano was a baseborn farmer from Cilento (South Italy). After the marriage he emigrated to Germany as a hodman. In the 70s he was imprisoned in the psychiatric hospital of Aversa after a serious act of violence: in the outdoor spaces of the asylum he produced his first works. When he had […]
FOREVERTRON
In 1983 Dr. Evermor started on the task of creating “Forevertron”, a massive construction designed to travel in space.
LA MAISON SCULPTÉE DE JACQUES LUCAS
LA MAISON SCULPTÉEJACQUES LUCAS (1944 | FRANCE) Jacques Lucas was born in 1944 in Poitiers, France, studied art history and graduated in archeology (University of Rennes). For ten years he worked in the French department of Cultural Heritage, while since the 1960s he has been self-taught painter.In 1968 he bought a house in Essart (Brittany) which, […]
TUDOR VILLAGE
TUDOR VILLAGEKEVIN DUFFY(1945 | UNITED KINGDOM) Kevin Duffy is a self-taught artist who has spent the last years building his own visionary environment. The only purpose of his buildings is to satisfy a need in Kevin to build, to create something.For more than 30 years Kevin Duffy has been constructing his Tudor Village in the […]
PEARL FRYAR TOPIARY GARDEN
Working from his imagination, Fryar coaxed over 100 specimens of more than 20 different trees and plants, including holly, yew and juniper, into fantastic shapes, hearts, animals and abstract forms.
THE OWL HOUSE – HELEN MARTINS
THE OWL HOUSEHELEN MARTINS(1898-1976 | AFRICA) Helen Martins was born in 1897 in Nieu Bethedsa, South Africa, the youngest of six children. She gained a teaching diploma after attending school in Graaff-Reinet and in 1919 moved to the Transvaal to begin working as a teacher.In 1920 Helen married a fellow teacher, Willem Johannes Pienaar. The […]
MELINA RICCIO
MELINA RICCIO (1951 | ITALY) Carmela “Melina” Riccio, was born in 1951, in Ariano Irpino (Italy). Until the age of 33 she spent a common life taking care of her three children; she had worked as a modeller.In 1983, during the MACEF fair (International Home Show), she exhibited her realization, a bedspread with hand-painted lampshades […]
LAS POZAS
The large-scale flowing construction of Las Pozas, set in the remote Mexican jungle, was devised by the eccentric English aristocrat Edward James.
DANIELLE JACQUI
DANIELLE JACQUI(1934 | FRANCE) Danielle Jacqui was born in 1934 in Nice, to a jeweler father and a militant communist mother. The early 1970s were a founding period for Jacqui. She met Claude Leclercq, her second husband, who became a close companion in her artistic career until his death in 2000. A fellow brocanteur and […]
THE MINDFIELD
William Blevins (Billy) Tripp, born 1955 in Jackson, Tennessee, is a nationally known practitioner of outsider art as well as the author of numerous poems and a novel, “The Mindfield Years”, published in 1996.
BRUNO WEBER
In 1962, Bruno Weber decided to create a great sculpture garden near Zürich, envisaged as a “visionary counterworld”.
VEIJO RÖNKKÖNEN
VEIJO RÖNKKÖNEN(1944–2010 | FINLAND) Veijo Rönkkönen was born in 1944, and he has lived all of his life in an isolated farm in Parikkala, Finland, near the Russian border. Here he has build a garden inhabitated by nearly five hundred human figures made of concrete. At his 16th, Veijo went to work in a local […]
ANNUNZIO LAGOMARSINI
ANNUNZIO LAGOMARSINI(1932-2018| ITALY) Annunzio Lagomarsini has worked for many years in the family building company. Since 1977, for seven years, he created his “flying house” near LaSpezia, Liguria, where he lived with his wife. He used rejects from the building sites or shipyards, for the creation of a 110 square meters house, complete with hook […]
RICHARD GREAVES
Greaves makes this structures in three stages: first he takes them apart, piece by piece; then he takes the various components back to his site; and, finally, he rebuilds them, alone, in his own way, using no measuring instruments and making use of nylon rope.
NEK CHAND
NEK CHAND AND THE ROCK GARDEN(1924 –2015 | CHANDIGARH, INDIA) One of the most enchanting expressions of the outsider art world is visible in Chandigarh and is the result of a single man who was put in the act of transforming the waste of a nascent metropolis into beauty. Nek Chand Saini is an Indian […]
The Encyclopedic Garden of ARMAND SCHULTHESS
Swiss born Armand Schulthess he left work in 1951 to retire into a secluded house in Auressio, Canton Tessin. Here he built an incredible garden.