Beuys, alongside
Andy Warhol and Kaii Higashiyama, created the Global-Art-Fusion project in 1985; this was a fax-art project in which drawings of all three artists were distributed around the world within the space of 32 minutes – the fax went through Dusseldorf, New York, Tokyo and was finally received at Vienna's Palais-Liechtenstein Museum of Modern Art – the fax was taken to be a sign of peace during the Cold War.
« Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... »
Joseph Beuys
A lot of Beuys’ installations and
performance art employed the use of unorthodox materials and adopted a ritualistic approach, often met with controversy; How to Explain
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Beuys, alongside
Andy Warhol and Kaii Higashiyama, created the Global-Art-Fusion project in 1985; this was a fax-art project in which drawings of all three artists were distributed around the world within the space of 32 minutes – the fax went through Dusseldorf, New York, Tokyo and was finally received at Vienna's Palais-Liechtenstein Museum of Modern Art – the fax was taken to be a sign of peace during the Cold War.
« Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... »
Joseph Beuys
A lot of Beuys’ installations and
performance art employed the use of unorthodox materials and adopted a ritualistic approach, often met with controversy; How to Explain Pictures To a Dead Hare is one of his most recognised performances – Beuys walked around the gallery for two hours while explaining the concept of the surrounding art to the dead hare that he carried with him.
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