The office furniture in Grond came from René Block's gallery in Berlin. Beuys thought that the creative energy of the everyday office environment ought to be utilized to the full. To this end the copper plates in the wooden structures function as 'batteries'. Now and then the loudspeaker crackles into life with a recording in which Joseph Beuys sighs at the end of a long performance, 'Jetzt brechen wir hier den Scheiss ab' ('now we'll stop this rubbish here'). The article 'Aufruf zur Alternative', with which Beuys called for social change in 1978 in the Frankfurter Rundschau, is now part of Grond.
Specifications
| Title | Ground |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Copper, wood, iron, loudspeaker, sound tape |
| Object type |
Installation
> Three-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Depth 350 cm Width 1200 cm Height 225 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Joseph Beuys
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| Accession number | BEK 1579 a-i (MK) |
| Credits | Purchased 1981 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 1981 |
| Creation date | in 1980 - 1981 |
| Internal exhibitions |
Joseph Beuys en Bruce Nauman (2017) |
| External exhibitions |
Eurasienstab (2017) |
| Material | |
| Object | |
| Geographical origin | Germany > Western Europe > Europe |
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All about the artist
Joseph Beuys
Krefeld 1921 - Düsseldorf 1986
After having seen active service in the Second World War as Luftwaffe pilot above countries including Russia, Joseph Beuys chose art in 1945. From 1947 to 1951...
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