The nature of Joseph Beuys
dal 30/4/2004 al 1/8/2004
Segnalato da
30/4/2004
The nature of Joseph Beuys
Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto
The much-anticipated exhibition The Nature of Joseph Beuys, curated by Professor Antonio d'Avossa and Lucrezia De Domizio. Marking the twentieth anniversary of Joseph Beuys' Difesa della Natura (Defence of Nature), the exhibition will showcase the internationally celebrated series. It will be the first time works from this series will be on view in North America.
THE NATURE OF JOSEPH BEUYS opens in Toronto at Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini
May 1, 2004 through August, 2004
Panel discussion by curators Lucrezia De Domizio and Professor Antonio d'Avossa and Canadian photographer Arnaud Maggs on Saturday, May 1st at 2pm.
The much-anticipated exhibition The Nature of Joseph Beuys, curated by Professor Antonio d'Avossa (Accademia di Brera a Milano) and Lucrezia De Domizio, opens at Toronto's Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini on May 1, 2004 through August 2004. Marking the twentieth anniversary of Joseph Beuys' Difesa della Natura (Defence of Nature), the exhibition will showcase the internationally celebrated series. It will be the first time works from this series will be on view in North America.
The late Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) was an acclaimed German conceptual artist, teacher and political activist. His ecologically based series Defence of Nature was born out of his desire to re-open a dialogue between man and nature thus re-opening a dialogue with oneself.
Beuys' Defence of Nature in collaboration with Lucrezia De Domizio began in Bolognano in the early eighties. The project began with the planting of trees and shrubs of endangered species on 15 hectares of land. It lasted four years and continued with an analysis of the land, the F.I.U. Wine Grape-Harvest, and the analysis of Wine-all of which were conceived as artistic components of the operation. Some of the works in the exhibit include the Defence of Nature banner (1981), Die Leute Sind Ganz Prima in Foggia (1973), Table Für Direkte Demokratie (1977), Museum Des Geldes (1979), Svecciatoio (1983), Ölflashe Olivestone (1984), and Cotyledon Umbelicus Veneris (1985). Along with these unique original works Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini will display a number of Beuys' multiples in the upper galleries.
An exhibition catalogue has been published and is available at the gallery. This exhibition of Beuys original works is complemented by an exhibition of works by celebrated Canadian photographer Arnaud Maggs at the Goethe-Institut in Toronto. Arnaud Maggs: Düsseldorf Photographs 1980 (May 5-June 19) features reworked large-scale photographs of German avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys and of students at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where Beuys taught. A series of films on Joseph Beuys will be screened in conjunction with the exhibit.
Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini
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