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Laurent Danchin Editor & Author

Sarah Lombardi is an art historian and has been director of the Art Brut Collection since 2012. Pascale Marini-Jeanneret is an art historian with a degree in museology and library science. In Paris she worked with the contemporary artist Thomas Hirschhorn for several years and wrote for the magazine Art Press. Since 2002, she has been a curator at the Art Brut Collection in Lausanne, where she manages the collection and curates exhibitions. She has written extensively about contemporary artists and Art Brut authors. Laurent Danchin is a writer, lecturer, and art critic, a specialist in Art Brut, outsider art, and singular art. Graduating from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris with an agrégation in modern literature, he taught in high schools in Nanterre and Boulogne-Billancourt, near the capital, from 1972 to 2006. He is the French correspondent for the magazine Raw Vision and curated a series of exhibitions at Halle Saint Pierre, in Paris, from 1995.