Joseph Beuys
07 Mar - 09 Jun 2014
JOSEPH BEUYS
7 March - 9 June 2014
The exhibition shows, in a rare cross-section spanning of Joseph Beuys' entire career from the 1940s to the 1980s, how his entire work is based on small formats. Beuys made sketches and experiments with materials, and his visual diaries mix observations and classifications in the best scientific sense. Altogether, one gets a glimpse of an artistic creative power that carries beyond the individual drawing.
Louisiana on Paper is a series that the museum dedicates to artists’ work on paper. A series of smaller exhibitions that often call for an immersion in the artist’s creative process or conceptual register. Not least in the case of Joseph Beuys, the exhibition strikes a tone different from what one finds in the artist at most museums, where his installations and mythological pieces predominate. But Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was a draughtsman before he became so much else – sculptor, installation and performance artist, art theorist and teacher, among other things.
7 March - 9 June 2014
The exhibition shows, in a rare cross-section spanning of Joseph Beuys' entire career from the 1940s to the 1980s, how his entire work is based on small formats. Beuys made sketches and experiments with materials, and his visual diaries mix observations and classifications in the best scientific sense. Altogether, one gets a glimpse of an artistic creative power that carries beyond the individual drawing.
Louisiana on Paper is a series that the museum dedicates to artists’ work on paper. A series of smaller exhibitions that often call for an immersion in the artist’s creative process or conceptual register. Not least in the case of Joseph Beuys, the exhibition strikes a tone different from what one finds in the artist at most museums, where his installations and mythological pieces predominate. But Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was a draughtsman before he became so much else – sculptor, installation and performance artist, art theorist and teacher, among other things.