Welcome A beautiful performanceObserver highlights a recently opened museum exhibition in a museum not in New York City, and places we know and like have attracted a lot of attention.
I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and a weekend is nothing more than lines. People are obsessed with waiting here, even though it is not part of the local culture. Indeed, if we want to buy, we can easily get the snacks that visitors are waiting for in one working day. The velvet rope sits between its line guided brass towers outside the famous Tiktok bagel shop, which is unnecessary. It feels like a sculpture, although more precisely, it is a physical remnant of the weekend social sculpture.
Of course, “social sculpture” is a term coined by Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) that conceptualizes all human beings and their activities as works of art. Visitors in Los Angeles for Frieze last week without a doubt “defending nature” is an investigation into his work on Broad 7000 Oak Trees (1982), it planted a large number of trees in Kassel, Germany, aiming to attract attention to the relatively quaint ecological problems of the time.
Beuys newbies will find all the hits here. Have his Feeling suit (1970) and felt sled (1969), part of his sensory work emerged from the self-theology shot down in Crimea in 1944 and was cured by Tatars, who succumbed to the fat among the fat.
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Beuys was unwavering, including the process that drove him crazy. One of his more attractive works in this show is also the last one he did: Capri Battery (1985), a light bulb that only needs every thousand hours per thousand hours (impressive at the time) because it is powered by lemon and therefore cannot be turned on. And his handsome Hare Stone (1982), recalling a famous performance work, he attempted to explain painting to a dead rabbit.
this 7000 Oak Trees Projects have led to the museum's progress Social Forest: Oak Trees in Tovaangar. Inspired by the record project, Social Forest In partnership with the nonprofit North East Trees, 100 Californian native oak trees will be planted in the Chávez Ridge area of Elysian Park, with the title referring to the land name in the Tongva (Gabrielino) language. The project is based on two main themes 7000 Oak Trees,” curator Sarah Loyer wrote in the catalogue; “First, the focus is on ecological and environmentalism of land interventions; second, a means of reconciliation and recovery through historical trauma. “Her description of the latter topic may refer to our imperialist impulses at home and abroad, and after recent events like wildfires and other events, it gains new density.
This is an important performance by a talented artist whose ideas have changed the world, who can object to the planting of trees? But after all that happened, people do wonder if we should look for artists to seek political solutions in 2025.
“Joseph Beuys: Defend nature” Will be seen on a wide range on March 23.
