Object "Capri Battery" (1985)
Object "Capri Battery" (1985)
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limited, 200 copies | signed | numbered | dated | titled | inscribed | bulb with socket | size 12 x 6 x 6 cm (h x w x d)
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Object "Capri Battery" (1985)
Multiple. Light bulb with a socket in a wooden box. Edition: 200 copies. Signed and numbered on the publisher's certificate and typographically dated, titled and inscribed. Schellmann 546. height: 12 cm width: 6 cm. Depth: 6 cm.
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About Joseph Beuys
1921-1986
Sculptor, draughtsman, painter, performance artist, and art theorist - Joseph Beuys is undoubtedly one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Already during his lifetime, he became a legend with his hat and aviator vest, paving the way for contemporary art today.
However, one typically stands in front of his works like a dying duck in a thunderstorm. And this metaphor actually fits quite well. Animals appear repeatedly in the art star's self-developed mythology, for example, in the environmental art "Lightning with Stag in Its Glare", which is permanently installed in the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The monumental installation consists of 39 metal casts of clay models that are arranged in a space that has been specially designed for the piece. The work compromises dark heaps of clay, symbolising amorphous primaeval creatures, in front of a six-metre-high triangular form cast in bronze, which thins out towards the top and symbolises lightning. The depiction of a stag, cast from an old ironing board resting on "wooden legs", stands out with its silvery matt surface. A kind of creation scene?
Beuys commented that the stag was a component of nature for the ordinary consciousness and raised the following question: "But how does nature now react if every future nature will be a man-made nature?" It is the 80s, Beuys' visionary reflections go far beyond the boundaries of the art world. With the figure of the stag, which also appears very frequently in his drawings, the artist opens up a whole world of possible interpretations. He also establishes art-historical references, for example, to German genre painting and such nature scenes that usually show the stag roaring majestically in front of a lush green forest, a popular motif in German living rooms that has nothing to do with the idea of art that Beuys conveyed. It is difficult if not impossible, and certainly unintentional, to fully understand the artist's sensually enigmatic works.
With Beuys‘ art, it is about feeling something. As is always the case with art.
Hand-signed prints by Beuys are rare and highly sought after: top-ranking investment objects.
Term for an art object (sculpture, installation) that, according to the artist’s intention, is produced in multiple copies within a limited and numbered edition.
Multiples enable the "democratization" of art by making the work accessible and affordable for a wider audience.
Contemporary art created from objects that are not normally considered materials from which art is made.
Object art was a means of expression of Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, and over time, it has developed various representational techniques up to the present day.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.