La Fabuloserie
The fabulous adventure of the Bourbonnais family

In the world of outside art, the Fabuloserie is one of the places that cannot be ignored. Its history is linked to that of a man. During the sixties, Alain Bourbonnais (1925-1988), a former gra-duate of the School of Fine Arts in Paris, was a young architect prominent in the official circles. At the start of that same decade, Bourbonnais bought a property in Dicy, in the Yonne department, where he started creating a very personal body of work combining painting, sculpture, and assemblage. He also collected a large number of works closely linked to popular art: unusual objects made by men “who didn’t come out of art school but rather came from factories and fields”. Visiting the outside art collection in Paris and meeting Jean Dubuffet came as a real choc to Bourbonnais. He perceived deep affinities between this collection (whose transfer to Lausanne had just been announced) and the one he was creating in Burgundy. Dubuffet confirmed Bourbonnais in his opinions. Consequently, Bourbonnais opened the Atelier Jacob – a gallery following outsider art – in 1972 in Paris, which was dedicated to the discovery of art considered “outside the norm”.

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