Beuys, Joseph "Untitled (7000 Oaks 27.9.82)" Photograph Unique Polaroid of Beuys Performance at Documenta7 1982
Size
4.26 x 3.55 in
Framed Size
7.75 x 6 in
Hand Signed
Signed and dated below
Edition #
Original
Certificate of Authenticity
Auction house bill of sale
Framed with Glass
Brown wood frame
Provenance & Extra Info
Original polaroid of the Beuy's performance at Documenta 7 entitled "7000 Oaks". To contribute to Documenta 7 in 1982, the decision of the German sculptor and artist Joseph Beuys for his part was the planting of 7000 oak trees in the township of Kassel. He has started his preliminary arrangements in the Spring of 1982. Next to each tree a column of basalt of about 1.20 m will be erected. All columns will be transported from the quarry near Kassel down to the core of the town to Documenta Art Center and stored there at the large field in front of the Fridericianum. In the very beginning already, the entire mass of stones, compared to the number of provided trees, expresses an image of the complete production. The imagination becomes perfect by comparing again the single constellation of the very first planted oak tree, accompanied by its column let into the soil, to the mountain of basalt blocks piled up on the border of Friedrichsplatz.
