In just a few years, the Trinkhall has forged a strong identity. Our project is collectively artistic, social, and, in the broadest sense of the term, political. Our collection – consisting of pieces created in workshops by artists with learning difficulties or significant psychosocial fragility - is constantly growing. It is the living archive of the “workshop movement” which, for half a century, all over the world, has accompanied what we at the Trinkhall call, “the expressive power of fragile worlds”. Neither art brut, fringe art nor outsider art: it is art full of identity; art “per se” that, like any other expressive form, draws from a network of shapes, styles, emotions, interactions, resistance and existence, defining anything aesthetic as anthropology. We arrive at this conclusion through our museum experience and any other associated research: learning difficulties
(fortunately !) do not determine any singular aesthetic; all that matters is the context of creation and the “possibility” of art, using workshop creation as a device, mirroring any form of expression, articulating power and revealing horizons. The aim of the anthology of events classed as part of the vast "Mélancolies" project - exhibitions, meetings, artist residencies, conferences, symposia, publications - is to fittingly celebrate the museum's anniversary and, equally, if not above all, to commit to its future, its development and its sustainability.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Museum.

The Trinkhall Museum team.