Guo Fengyi has drawn a spectacular amount of attention since her art came to light in recent years. She was born in Xi’an, central China, in 1942. She obtained her high school diploma in 1962 and found work in a rubber factory. However, severe bouts of arthritis forced her to give up her career at the age of thirty-nine. She turned to alternative medicine in the hope of alleviating her symptoms, and found a new spiritual path in Qi Gong. She started experiencing visions in 1989, as a result of which she produced large numbers of drawings, first on the backs of pages from calendars, then later on rice paper. She worked with Indian ink and brushes, producing works up to five metres long, drawn with no initial plan in mind, discovering her own creation as she worked. The multitude of delicate lines form ghostly figures, dragons, phoenixes, and faces, sometimes interwoven, smiling and serene or terrifying and monstrous. Guo’s fascinating and highly original work has the power to take the viewer to an imaginary land where serenity is calm to the point of becoming disquieting and where monstrosity is strangely familiar. Her works already feature in the Collection d'Art Brut in Lausanne and the Museum of Everything in London, and was shown at the Galerie Christian Berst and Drawing Now Paris in 2010. Guo Fengyi is now being hailed as a major figure in the history of Art Brut.

• Collection de l'Art brut, Lausanne (Suisse)
• The Museum of Everything, Londres (Angleterre)
• Treger Saint Silvestre Collection (Portugal)
• Dammann Collection, Bâle (Suisse)

• Lucienne Peiry, Collection de l’Art Brut. Lausanne, co-édition Collection de l'Art Brut et Skira-Flammarion, Paris, 2012.

• Lucienne Peiry, « Guo Fenguy » in L’Art Brut n°23, Gollion, Infolio, Lausanne, Collection de l’Art Brut, 2011.

• "Guo Fengyi, une rhapsodie chinoise" in Parisart, 3 janvier 2011.

• Interview de Christian Berst par Stéphanie Pioda, "Pleins feux sur la création à la marge de la folie et de l'étrange" in International Art Diary, 14 décembre 2010.
  
  

• "Guo Fengyi, une créatrice brute chinoise à Paris" in Le poignard subtil, 6 décembre 2010.
  
  

• guo fengyi, une rapsodie chinoise catalogue d'exposition (10 /12/2010 au 15/01/2011, galerie christian berst) Paris, lelivredart, galerie christian berst, 2010.
  
  

• Rentrée Hors-les-normes 2010 découvertes et nouvelles acquisitions, catalogue d'exposition (16/09 – 16/10/2010, galerie christian berst), Paris, lelivredart, galerie christian berst, 2010.
  
  

• « L'Art Brut aujourd'hui », Artension, Hors Série n°4, septembre 2010.
  
  

• The Museum of Everything, catalogue d'exposition (1er avril – 29 août 2010, Pinacoteca Agnelli - Turin - Italie ), Milan, Electa, 2010
  
  

• Lu Jie, Who is Guo Fengyi, A long march project, Beijing, 25000 Cultural Transmission Center & New York, the Long March Fondation, 2005

•  A voir :

• « Guo Fengyi et les rouleaux magiques » in Blackstock - Guo Fengyi, (Ph. Lespinasse A.Alvarez, Lausanne/Le Tourne, Collection de l’Art Brut/Lokomotiv Films, 2011).