 Henry Darger: Untitled (Train tracks and girls), c.1950–60's Untitled (recto)/ At ressurrectoaction run (verso) Carbon tracing, collage, pencil and watercolour on paper. 61 x 96cm Private collection Inner Worlds Outside Agar, Alcock, Aloïse Angelus, Balnaves, Baron, Bartmann, Baselitz, Basquiat, Beehle, Bellmer, Bispo Do Rosário, Blagdon, Blank, Blankenhorn, Blayney, Bourgeois, Braz, Breakwell, Von Bruenchenhein, Buhler, Burland, Burra, Carlo, Castle, Michael The Cartographer, Cochran, Darger, Delaunay, Dellschau, Domsic, D’Souza, Dubuffet, Duhem, Ensor, Ernst, Farrer, Fautrier, Gelli, Van Genk, Gill, Gillespie, Goesch, Gordon, Grünenwaldt, Guston, Hauser, Joseph Grebing, Greuter, Heyligen, Hipkiss, Horacek, Howard 0, Kandinsky, Kernbeis, Klee, Klett, Klojer, Kubin, Kusmic, Kurelek, Lange, Lesage, Lonné, Lortet, Louden, Mackintosh, Maier, Man Ray, Marshall, Masson, Matta, McDonagh, Mckesson, Mebes, Mesens, Meyer, Michaux, Miró, Molloy, Monsiel, Murry, Natterer, Nedjar, Nie, Nijinsky, Nolde, Van Nuffel, Nutt, Von Oertzen, Paolozzi, Penfold, Penrose, Peploe, Von Perfall, Perifimou, Philippe, Picabia, Potter, Price, Pujolle, Ramírez, Rops, Rousseau, Samaras, Schiele, Schneller, Schöpke, Schröder-Sonnenstern, Soutter, Schudel, Sekulic, Smith, Carl Sonntag, Soutter, Von Stropp, Suckfüll, Tàpies, Theo, Tobey, Traylor, Trevelyan, Tschirtner, Uddin, Verbena, Walla, Watts, Freiherr Von Wieser, Wilde, Williams, Wilson, Wladyslawa, Wölfli, Wojciechowsky, Yoakum, Zemánková The Whitechapel shows the impact of little known Outsiders on some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. Since the early 20th Century, the terms Art Brut or Outsider Art have encouraged a distinction between mainstream artists and individuals producing art from the "fringes of society". "Inner Worlds Outside" is a landmark exhibition bringing Insider and Outsider artists together as two sides of the story of modern art. Outsider Artists have included psychiatric patients, criminal offenders, self-taught visionaries, mediums and other "eccentric" individuals. Interest in Outsider Art has grown with the rise of psychiatry. Artists like Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, the Expressionists and Surrealists explored the psyche in search of autonomous creativity or childlike innocence, and turned to "outsiders" for inspiration. However the way Outsider Art has been defined by biographical and psychological factors is now outmoded. "Inner Worlds Outside" now explodes the myths surrounding Outsiders, showing the parallels between Insider and Outsider Art, and the impact of unknown Outsiders on some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. The exhibition presents works by modern masters including Jean Dubuffet, James Ensor, Philip Guston, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joan Miró and Emil Nolde alongside those of Outsiders such as Henry Darger, Madge Gill, Michael the Cartographer and Adolf Wölfli. Themes include "Faces and Masks" which reveals the magical powers invested in representations of faces, as in the obsessive, intricate drawings by the clairvoyant, Madge Gill. While "Imaginary Landscapes" shows epic narratives by Henry Darger, and "The Allure of Language" explores written language as a coded structure and features the elaborate, imaginary maps of Adolf Wölfli. Curated by Jon Thompson with Monika Kinley, "Inner Worlds Outside" is a collaboration with Fundacion La Caixa, Madrid & the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Media Partner: Classic FM Exhibition: 28 April - 25 June 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Sun 11 am - 6 pm, Thursdays until 9 pm Whitechapel Art Gallery 80-82 Whitechapel High Street GB-London E1 7QX Telephone +44 20 7522 7878 (recorded information) Fax +44 20 7377 1685 Email info@whitechapel.org www.whitechapel.org |
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