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Gaston Teuscher |
THÉVOZ (Michel). Gaston Teuscher. Exhibition Gaston Teuscher, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, 1981.
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| "Some people say I am a bit crazy. To those people, I answer: To say that someone is crazy, don't you have to be somewhat crazy yourself?" (Publications de la Collection de l'Art Brut, fascicule 10, p.81.) Gaston Teuscher has an uneventful upbringing. He is a good student, at the top of his class, but his behavior does not follow the rules of discipline. He shows his independence by running away. He remains attached to his mother for a long time. She is a midwife, his father works on farms. When Gaston reaches adulthood, he decides to travel. To support himself, he teaches French and physical education wherever he goes in Europe. | ||
| He ends up settling in Switzerland, where he works as a teacher. Whenever he has any spare time, he loves touring the country by train, going from one place to another just for the mere pleasure of traveling and meeting people or discovering a new restaurant. He starts drawing in 1974 at the age of seventy-one. The illustration of one of his poems becomes the start of a huge productivity. He enjoys the irregular shapes of recycled paper on which he draws these ghostly looking bodies with swaying faces. He uses pencils or ballpoint pen; his colors come from tobacco juice, cherries, peaches or wine. His materials and his way of filling up the whole page are far from what he learned in school. He does not consider himself an artist but rather a layman who is interested in revealing what is hidden in nature. | ||
| SEE ALSO: Publications de la Collection de
l'Art Brut, fascicule 10, Lausanne, 1977. THÉVOZ (Michel). Gaston Teuscher. Exhibition Gaston Teuscher, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, 1981. |
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