Pierre Boulat
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The Closerie
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Outside view of the Closerie. La Closerie was built on a plot of land of about 1600 square metres, overlooking the Yerres river. It is laid on a concrete slab and surrounded by a fence isolating it from the outside. At its centre is a building, the Villa Falbala, which contains the logological cabinet, built by Dubuffet from 1967 to 1969, a place for meditation. The whole complex is covered with white paint and covered with black drawings. Villa Falbala measures 20 by 15 metres and its roof, at its highest point, is 8 metres high. The height of the surrounding wall, which is interrupted in places to break the uniformity, varies from 3 to 5 metres. -
The Closerie
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Outside view of the Closerie. La Closerie was built on a plot of land of about 1600 square metres, overlooking the Yerres river. It is laid on a concrete slab and surrounded by a fence isolating it from the outside. At its centre is a building, the Villa Falbala, which contains the logological cabinet, built by Dubuffet from 1967 to 1969, a place for meditation. The whole complex is covered with white paint and covered with black drawings. Villa Falbala measures 20 by 15 metres and its roof, at its highest point, is 8 metres high. The height of the surrounding wall, which is interrupted in places to break the uniformity, varies from 3 to 5 metres. -
The Closerie
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Outside view of the Closerie. La Closerie was built on a plot of land of about 1600 square metres, overlooking the Yerres river. It is laid on a concrete slab and surrounded by a fence isolating it from the outside. At its centre is a building, the Villa Falbala, which contains the logological cabinet, built by Dubuffet from 1967 to 1969, a place for meditation. The whole complex is covered with white paint and covered with black drawings. Villa Falbala measures 20 by 15 metres and its roof, at its highest point, is 8 metres high. The height of the surrounding wall, which is interrupted in places to break the uniformity, varies from 3 to 5 metres. -
The Closerie
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Outside view of the Closerie. La Closerie was built on a plot of land of about 1600 square metres, overlooking the Yerres river. It is laid on a concrete slab and surrounded by a fence isolating it from the outside. At its centre is a building, the Villa Falbala, which contains the logological cabinet, built by Dubuffet from 1967 to 1969, a place for meditation. The whole complex is covered with white paint and covered with black drawings. Villa Falbala measures 20 by 15 metres and its roof, at its highest point, is 8 metres high. The height of the surrounding wall, which is interrupted in places to break the uniformity, varies from 3 to 5 metres. -
The Closerie
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Outside view of the Closerie. La Closerie was built on a plot of land of about 1600 square metres, overlooking the Yerres river. It is laid on a concrete slab and surrounded by a fence isolating it from the outside. At its centre is a building, the Villa Falbala, which contains the logological cabinet, built by Dubuffet from 1967 to 1969, a place for meditation. The whole complex is covered with white paint and covered with black drawings. Villa Falbala measures 20 by 15 metres and its roof, at its highest point, is 8 metres high. The height of the surrounding wall, which is interrupted in places to break the uniformity, varies from 3 to 5 metres. -
The Closerie
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Outside view of the Closerie. La Closerie was built on a plot of land of about 1600 square metres, overlooking the Yerres river. It is laid on a concrete slab and surrounded by a fence isolating it from the outside. At its centre is a building, the Villa Falbala, which contains the logological cabinet, built by Dubuffet from 1967 to 1969, a place for meditation. The whole complex is covered with white paint and covered with black drawings. Villa Falbala measures 20 by 15 metres and its roof, at its highest point, is 8 metres high. The height of the surrounding wall, which is interrupted in places to break the uniformity, varies from 3 to 5 metres. -
The Closerie
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Inside the villa, the antechamber, 20 metres long and 3.60 metres wide depending on the location, leads to the Logological Cabinet. On the double door leading to the Cabinet are two black and white figures: The Paladin and the Paladine. -
The Closerie
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Inside the villa, the antechamber, 20 metres long and 3.60 metres wide depending on the location, leads to the Logological Cabinet. On the double door leading to the Cabinet are two black and white figures: The Paladin and the Paladine. -
The Closerie
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Inside the villa, the antechamber, 20 metres long and 3.60 metres wide depending on the location, leads to the Logological Cabinet. On the double door leading to the Cabinet are two black and white figures: The Paladin and the Paladine. -
The Closerie
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The Logological Cabinet consists of 24 panels arranged in a rectangle, sculpted and covered with uninterrupted red, blue and black script. It is the heart of the Villa, a space for meditation, a "philosophical exercise room...a figuration of the Universe. "In the centre of the room, a large glass table and six armchairs from the nearest Habitat store. -
The old workshops
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Model of the Summer Show, which was to take place at the Régie Renault headquarters. The realization of this summer show, started in 1974, was interrupted, on the occasion of a change of CEO. An attempt to destroy the work led to a lawsuit. -
The old workshops
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Detail of the Monument to the Phantom -
The old workshops
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On a shelf, in the workshop, painted epoxy figures, made to give the scale of the models. -
The Museum
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Polystyrene bench, Hourloupe style, for the visitors of the museum. -
The Museum
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Close-up of the Cuckoo Bazaar characters. -
The Museum
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Cuckoo Bazaar's equipment. Sculptural show proposing a different conception of theatre. It consists of two things: -the costumes, mounted on mannequins and intended to be inhabited by dancers in the case of a performance (photo 21 to 23) -practicable, large-sized subjects cut out and mounted on feet with casters. The set represents more than a hundred pieces, some of which can be animated by mechanical or electrical equipment. -
The artist's house
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Memory Theater, general view 1975-1979 Front: Dramatization Furniture is an integral part of the work -
The artist's house
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Memoroy Site 1 - The chair is an integral part of the work -
The artist's house
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The square nose - 1954 -
The artist's house
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The Deviseur II - 1969
Dubuffet’s Falbala Closerie
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In Perigny sur Yerres, stands the largest and most unknown building erected by Jean Dubuffet: the Villa Falbala, a kind of blockhouse with rounded forms, placed on a concrete slab and isolated from the environment by a walled area of walls of variable heights and interrupting in places to break the uniformity.
Designed in 1969, and completed in 1973, to house the “logological cabinet”, the set, painted in white is entirely covered with black drawings, the style so particular to Jean Dubuffet, known as Hourloupe.
Unexpected and extravagant, the Falbala Closerie is the jewel of the Dubuffet Foundation, which, 30 kms from Paris, houses the painter’s former workshops and a museum built for this purpose, the essence of the artist’s work. .
