Joseph Beuys--Manresa: A Spiritual Geography Mennekes Friedhelm
Joseph Beuys--Manresa: A Spiritual Geography Mennekes Friedhelm The first performances by Joseph Beuys were a radical turning point for twentieth-century art. For Manresa, one of his legendary…
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Joseph Beuys--Manresa: A Spiritual Geography Mennekes Friedhelm
The first performances by Joseph Beuys were a radical turning point for twentieth-century art. For Manresa, one of his legendary performance actions, which took place on December 15, 1966 in D sseldorf, he collaborated with the Danish artists Henning Christiansen and Bj rn N rgaard. Beuys saw art as a transformative action that is both personal and communal, and his expanded artistic practice engaged spirituality, personal mythology, political structures, and symbolic materials.
The performance was carried out in Manresa, the city that both gave the name to the original action and also was where Saint Ignatius Loyola had the revelations that led him to write his Spiritual Exercises, which Beuys considered essential reading.This book, marking the centenary of the artist's In 1994 those two artists performed a new version of the piece as Manresa Hauptbahnhof.