BEIJING TODAY
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Finding art’s lost minds Pages 12-13
Guo Haiping thought he was crazy when he set out to be an artist. But in the art world, madness is the next step after genius. He entered the Nanjing Zutangshan Mental Hospital on World Mental Health Day 2006 to search out and cultivate minds that took that extra step. The astounding work produced by the patients he befriended was the subject of the 2007 book Demented Art. This September, Guo is planning a new exhibition in Nanjing to show ‘normal’ people what he learned: it might be everyone on the outside who is ‘mentally ill.’ Photo provided by Guo Haiping
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY March 27, 2009 – April 2, 2009 NO. 408 CN11-0120 HTTP://BJTODAY.YNET.COM CHIEF EDITOR: JIAN RONG NEWS EDITOR: YU SHANSHAN DESIGNER: ZHAO YAN
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