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Joseph Beuys / Transformer

Seeking To Understand The Pain

Joseph Beuys

Transformer, a documentary of Beuys’ work and life filmed at Guggenheim Museum exhibition, in New York 1979 by John Halpern. Beuys’s philosophy and candid opinions about mankind, ecology and the state of the world are the headlines of this documentary narrated by Beuys himself. During World War II, during which time Beuys was a soldier, Russians shot down his German fighter plane but Beuys was rescued by the Tartars. After this life-changing case he decided to use his life as a tool in the service of humanity. He was noted for his use of unusual materials like fat, felt, pumps, sleds, and honey. The aesthetic of his work is more like a “non-aesthetic” of the aesthetic of the nature, gestures and the simplicity beyond the complexity. Although it’s very hard to explain, this feeling appears like a hypnotic experience after listening his voice and explanations that he gives in the documentary, it’s really easy to see the harmony and the relation that he makes between his art and the life it self.

The complexity and the mathematical side of the physical world, turns back to it self and become the circle of life. So the material choice and the themes of his installations and sculptures also find their places in this circle. Without that relation everything is empty, meaningless. To find the meaning, the viewer is forced to think, about life, about his life and the life of Beuys. There again you see the chain, the circle. Everything is related and everything makes sense if you thing about it all. He discusses his often-arcane concepts in a way that the viewer might find new insight into conceptual art instead of focusing on art’s power to stimulate discussion and change. He recites “… on the psychosocial level, the Theory of Sculpture describes the transformation of everything in the world-thought, language, and action- from a state of utter disorder to one of definition and articulation”. Here again we can see that he can no longer separate any chain circle, every thing is well related by its literal sense. We could say that Beuys’s art is considered therapeutic because the viewers not only appreciate the oeuvre but also face the concepts of the metaphoric philosophy.

Joseph Beuys explains his work Bathtub (1960) “My intention with this work was to recall my point departure and with it the experience and feeling of my childhood. It acts as a kind of autobiographical key: an object from the outer world, as solid material thing invested with energy of a spiritual nature. You could call this substance, and it is the transformation of substance that is my concern in art, rather

than the traditional aesthetic understanding of beautiful appearances. If the creativity relates to the transformation, change, and development of substance, then it can be applied to everything in the world, and is no longer restricted to art…”

He believed that art should be effectively transform people’s everyday life. His usage of the material was systematic iconography and metaphorical protagonist in his performances. On 26 November 1965 at Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf his head covered in honey and gold leaf, took a dead hare in his arms and quietly carried it round the exhibition of his drawings and painting, ”letting it touch the pictures with its paws”. Then he sat on a stool in dimly lit corner and proceeded to explain the meaning of the works to the dead animal, because he does not really like explaining them to people he said, and since “even in death a hare has more sensitivity and instinctive understanding than some men with their stubborn rationality”.

He’s not the only one suffering from the spirituality and physical principle, as the creator of the social and physical sculpture. On the other hand it’s a bit contrary but also so close with that spirituality, I think Matthew Barney’s creativity is more based on the conflict where the desire and disciple compete. The simplicity of Beuys turns to complex imaginary fantastic.

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