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BEUYS ON FILM

Joseph Beuys (1921–1986)—the first German artist to merit a solo show at the Guggenheim—was loved, reviled, collected, and trashed. Indeed, this master of felt, fat, and activism expanded the definition of art in the twentieth century—and the role of the artist in contemporary society. Beuys embraced it all: sculpture, performance art, photography, graphic design, shamanism, and politics. (As a pacifist-environmentalist, he co-founded the Student Party and the Green Party in Germany.)

This weekend in Hollywood, as part of the Goethe Institut’s German Current Los Angeles film festival, writer and director Andres Veiel will present his new documentary BEUYS, in its American premiere.

 

BEUYS, Saturday, October 14, at 5 pm.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/los/ver/gcu/flm.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21057777

Joseph Beuys. Graphic design material courtesy of Fondazione Bonotto.

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EXHIBITION: JOSEPH BEUYS AT MITCHELL-INNES & NASH

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A sweeping exhibition of Joseph Beuys multiples from the Reinhard Schlegl collection is currently on display at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York City. The show includes 500 works and ephemera spanning the 1960s to 1980s, with familiar forms like a felt-laden sled, a Fluxus violin, and Capri Battery, a lemon-powered lightbulb. An array of exhibition posters, manifestos, documents, and even a video performance projection create a view into Beuys’s practice that is unusually historically comprehensive for a commercial gallery exhibition.

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