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Joseph Beuys
Difesa della Natura
signed, stamped and numbered 10/20 on the reverse of the banner
sculptural environment of wooden table with bottle of wine and seven jars of bottled fruit, vegetables, plaster sculpture, stone and sailcloth banner
Overall dimensions variable.
banner: 105 by 390 cm. 41 3/8 by 153 1/2 in.
table: 78 by 156 by 78 cm. 30 6/8 by 61 3/8 by 30 6/8 in.
Executed in 1982, this work is number 10 of an edition of 20.
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Details
signed, stamped and numbered 10/20 on the reverse of the banner
Overall dimensions variable.
banner: 105 by 390 cm. 41 3/8 by 153 1/2 in.
table: 78 by 156 by 78 cm. 30 6/8 by 61 3/8 by 30 6/8 in.
Provenance
Galerie Klein, Bonn
Reiner Speck Collection, Cologne
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner
Exhibition
Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, Museum Haus Esters, To the Happy Few - Bücher Bilder. Objekte aus der Sammlung Reiner Speck, 15 May - 1 July 1982
Bonn, Galerie Klein, Verteidigt die Natur, 6 - 1 O December 1982
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Beuys and Warhol: The Artist as Shaman & Star, 7 December - 8 March 1992
Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, Joseph Beuys; with Fat and Felt, 29 June - 30 September 1993 (exh. cat. pp. 107, 109, 111, illustrated)
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Sculpture, 6 December 1994 - 26 January 1995
Tokyo, Mori Arts Center, Happiness, 16 October 2003 - 18 January 2004
New York, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Joseph Beuys: Make the Secrets Productive - Sculpture and Objects, 5 March - 10 April 2010, pp. 26-37 illustrated (exh. cat., illustrated)
London, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Joseph Beuys: Hirschdenkmäler, October 14. 2012 - November 24, 2012 (exh. catalogue pp. 78/79, illustrated)
Literature
Lucrezia de Domizio, lncontro con Beuys, Bolognano 1984, illustrated p. 337-8
Catalogue Note
Difesa della Natura refers to an ecological campaign that Joseph Beuys and his dealer, Lucrezia de Domizio, executed in the 1980s with the help of the students of the Joseph Beuys Art Academy. The campaign required the use of a car, pamphlets, copper tubing, and spades that were meant to be plunged vigorously throughout the Italian countryside. Beuys sold the car, its contents, as well as two blackboards as part of his transformation routine of turning the performance materials into artworks that would be monetised and in turn fund other projects. Difesa della Natura does not only refer to ecological conditions of living, but above all Beuys wants it to be interpreted as an anthropological point of view: protection of the humankind, the individual, creativity and human values- topics that are still highly relevant today.