A True Story About Joseph Beuys No. 3 (This Is a Fascist German Military Pilot Joseph Beuys) – (Kęstutis Grigaliūnas) Previous Next


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Size: 99 x 106 cm

Museum: MO Museum / MO muziejus (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Technique: Acrylic

One of the most famous German artists, Joseph Beuys – conceptualist, creator of shamanic performances and objects, a great mystifier – is an icon of the contemporary art world of the 1970s and 1980s.Beuys was particularly important for Lithuanian art after the restoration of Independence because he opened completely new art horizons. His became a frequent and regular name brought up in debates and discussions among artists, like a familiar neighbor. The cycle of works entitled A True Story About Joseph Beuys, created in 1998 in the style of a comic book, focuses on exactly that point: Beuys becoming an everyday, but also mythological, personage.Grigaliūnas allows himself to treat

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