Ticket to the Future
group show
Joseph Beuys (1921 -1986), whose 100th birthday is celebrated this year, has left behind a complete work rich in the media and thematically. In addition to the drawings, sculptures and actions, he also includes his editions (multiples), which form a collection focus of the Kunstmuseum Bonn and play an important role in the context of his work.
In the microcosm of the multiples, not only are all the content-related focal points of Beuys's work, they also add a special, social quality to the work: The circulation objects were produced in large quantities, delivered inexpensively and address their messages to everyone. They leave the ghetto of museum art to become effective in the social space. This is where Beuys wants to anchor his ideas. Accordingly, Beuys' clear demand is to make his way to a more social, fairer future designed according to ecological principles. To this day, its influence is noticeable in artistic and socio-political discourses.
In the Bonn exhibition, the contemporary artists Katinka Bock, Christian Jankowski and Jon Rafman enter into a differentiated exchange of ideas with their works. They interact with the three content focal points of the exhibition, which stand out in Beuys's work: Image - World / Nature - Process / Language - Action.
Although they are absolutely independent artists: inside personalities, there can be points of contact with ideas and questions that have also moved Beuys. This creates a complex, intergenerational dialogue in which impulses are taken up and reformulated. This may also be proven by the viral power of the multiple, the topicality of Beuys' thinking: Beuys is an artist of the 21st century. century, an artist of the future.
Artists
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