Inner Worlds Outside

The Guardian... View from the exterior - It's naive, obsessive and often done with no skill at all. Why are we so entranced by outsider art? (Philip Hensher, Monday, June 12, 2006). "...The fascination of outsider art is brilliantly explored by an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Inner Worlds Outside. It sets the work of self-taught obsessives - sometimes, people with mental illness - next to the work of classic artists who had an interest in their bizarre work. That's always been the rationale for taking it seriously. In previous generations, western artists discovered African tribal art, children's art, graffiti - things outside the accepted canon - and learned from those simplicities. Subsequently, artists such as Klee and Dubuffet imitated the outsiders, and their art was rejuvenated." ... Inner Worlds Outside, 28 April - 25 June 2006 at Whitechapel Gallery in London.