Joseph Beuys

luka

luka

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"Had it not been for the Tartars I would not be alive today. They were the nomads of the Crimea, in what was then no man's land between the Russian and German fronts, and favoured neither side. I had already struck up a good relationship with them, and often wandered off to sit with them. 'Du nix njemcky' they would say, 'du Tartar,' and try to persuade me to join their clan. Their nomadic ways attracted me of course, although by that time their movements had been restricted. Yet, it was they who discovered me in the snow after the crash, when the German search parties had given up. I was still unconscious then and only came round completely after twelve days or so, and by then I was back in a German field hospital. So the memories I have of that time are images that penetrated my consciousness. The last thing I remember was that it was too late to jump, too late for the parachutes to open. That must have been a couple of seconds before hitting the ground. Luckily I was not strapped in – I always preferred free movement to safety belts… My friend was strapped in and he was atomized on impact – there was almost nothing to be found of him afterwards. But I must have shot through the windscreen as it flew back at the same speed as the plane hit the ground and that saved me, though I had bad skull and jaw injuries. Then the tail flipped over and I was completely buried in the snow. That's how the Tartars found me days later. I remember voices saying 'Voda' (Water), then the felt of their tents, and the dense pungent smell of cheese, fat and milk. They covered my body in fat to help it regenerate warmth, and wrapped it in felt as an insulator to keep warmth in."
 
sufi

sufi

lala
it's his 100 years in 2021
i ended up at this place somehow years ago, his home town of kleve near dusseldorf
beuys2021.de

sammlungshighlights | Beuys2021

NRW feiert 2021 den 100. Geburtstag von Joseph Beuys mit Ausstellungen, Aktionen und Performances, Theater-, Musik- und Lehrveranstaltungen. 20 der bedeutendsten Museen und Kulturinstitutionen des Landes erkunden und befragen Joseph Beuys‘ komplexes Wirke
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catalog

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The only thing I know about him is that it's possible he faked that story about the tartars rescuing him.

He seems to have been a big deal for artists in the 70s, but sort of forgotten now.
 
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catalog

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Anyway woops where is your drawing of dissensus people as a map? There you go again, casting the first stone when you've done sweet FA yourself.
 
jenks

jenks

thread death
I’ve seen and like a lot of his stuff - the myth of his crash, the lard, the felt, his whole costume makes his whole art about performance- the time he locked himself away in a cage with a wolf. Shaman stuff all very transgressive at the time. Gnomic pronouncements and anti consumerist and Americanised western commercialisation.
It’s probably a bit dated now but there was something exciting there I feel.
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
catalog said:
Anyway woops where is your drawing of dissensus people as a map? There you go again, casting the first stone when you've done sweet FA yourself.
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lol but you send the right man for the job don't you, i've posted 0 times in the "drawings you have done" thread
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
on topic though there's a portrait of beuys by warhol done in diamonds stuck to the canvas, quite a long way from fat and felt
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
but being embarrassed is probably a key part of being a warhol muse or superstar

imagine the conversation in the factory "i'm going to film you sleeping for eight hours" "that's just great andy"

to take a mild example
 
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