![]() In Berlin, ART CRU gallery director Alexandra von Gersdorff-Bultmann shows so-called outsider art by people with mental illnesses or disabilities. Interest in artistic "directness" is on the rise. Born in 1964, the Cologne artist focuses on pressing contemporary issues like exclusion, violence, persecution, war and killing. Theirs is an art that "comes entirely from the soul, an art of great directness," he said. ![]() "Art experts would see the difference right away," said Mecherlein, adding that artists with intellectual disabilities don't focus so much on the impact of their work when drawing or painting. What distinguishes the art of people with and without impairments? ![]() The art educator heads the euward archive and the Augustinum studio in Munich, where artists with intellectual disabilities work. Woman with polio uses art to empower others 'Art from the soul'
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