Woke this morning to an email from James F. Kadlec requesting me link to the Psyche and Art exhibition project of the World Psychiatric Association, which I’m very happy to do. According to the prospectus, this was:
An exhibition for the World Psychiatric Association 11th International Congress commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the organization, this extraordinary collection of approximately 90 images includes art from museums and private collections of more than thirty artists from three continents. It has drawn international press when shown in museums in Hamburg, and Düsseldorf. In Vienna its exhibition was at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art. Parts of the Psyche and Art have been included in exhibitions in Yokohama, St. Petersburg, Washington D.C. and New York.
From what I can see, it toured in 2005. What a wonderful collection of psychic energy and self-valuation.
You can read more of the prospectus here (PDF). I suggest checking out the thumbnail images page, as the images themselves are large, and you can get to them from the thumbnails.
They’re pretty much all wonderful, but two that caught my eye this brilliant Spring morning in Sydney are:
Heinrich Reisenbauer (b 1938)
Sonnen (Sun), 1997
Pencil and crayon on paper
Oswald Tschirtner (b 1938)
Schlafende (Sleeping), undated
Ink on paper (21 x 15 cm)
