Cult of the Artist: Beuys. We are the Revolution
03 Oct 2008 - 25 Jan 2009
CULT OF THE ARTIST: BEUYS. WE ARE THE REVOLUTION
3 OCTOBER 2008 - 25 JANUARY 2009
A National Gallery Exhinbition in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
In the second half of the 20th century, the world of art found in Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) a figure whose universal aspirations and ingenious visual imagery lunged out deep into the European history of ideas. No other artist in the 20th century applied his thoughts on the relations between art and society in such a complex way as Joseph Beuys.
Twenty years after the last major exhibition of his work in Germany, and following major exhibitions in Zurich, Paris and London, the exhibition ‘BEUYS. We are the Revolution' will give shape to this large expanse of his ideas. For the first time ever the context of his work will be outlined in great detail by way of various documents, writings, films and photographs. The presentation will be grounded in the open work and above all on Beuys himself: Beuys the artist, Beuys the thinker, Beuys the individual. Chapters of works by Beuys from the collection of Erich Marx as well as the abundance of audiovisual material from the Joseph Beuys Media Archives will be shown in vivid, dialogical juxtaposition with key works, seldom on loan, from right across Europe. Furthermore, to mark the exhibition, the prestigious STEIDL publishers will be producing a publication packed with pictures, which, analogous to the exhibition, is to set itself the challenge of trying to make sense of Beuys in his entirety as a singular phenomenon in an artistic biography.
3 OCTOBER 2008 - 25 JANUARY 2009
A National Gallery Exhinbition in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
In the second half of the 20th century, the world of art found in Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) a figure whose universal aspirations and ingenious visual imagery lunged out deep into the European history of ideas. No other artist in the 20th century applied his thoughts on the relations between art and society in such a complex way as Joseph Beuys.
Twenty years after the last major exhibition of his work in Germany, and following major exhibitions in Zurich, Paris and London, the exhibition ‘BEUYS. We are the Revolution' will give shape to this large expanse of his ideas. For the first time ever the context of his work will be outlined in great detail by way of various documents, writings, films and photographs. The presentation will be grounded in the open work and above all on Beuys himself: Beuys the artist, Beuys the thinker, Beuys the individual. Chapters of works by Beuys from the collection of Erich Marx as well as the abundance of audiovisual material from the Joseph Beuys Media Archives will be shown in vivid, dialogical juxtaposition with key works, seldom on loan, from right across Europe. Furthermore, to mark the exhibition, the prestigious STEIDL publishers will be producing a publication packed with pictures, which, analogous to the exhibition, is to set itself the challenge of trying to make sense of Beuys in his entirety as a singular phenomenon in an artistic biography.