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Drawing and collage preparatory draft for the book Art, magic and astrology in Leonardo's cenacle
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Volcano
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The David
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Express impossibility
Ninna Nanna
even this year
Heavenly infinity corner
Above our future
Emergence
The silence inhabits the houses
Can
Shadow lines
In display case
Without title
Fioroni Giosetta
Without title
Drawing and collage preparatory draft for the book Art, magic and astrology in Leonardo's cenacle
Without title
Chiasma
Billy goat
Man in a bathing suit
Immaculate Conception
Defense of Nature
Olivestone
A fifteen-year-old captain
Bike
Metaphysicians
Flow
House
Ideology and nature
The universe, like infinity, we see it in pieces
Without title
Tables
Without title
Self portrait
The slide
Campidoglio square
Without title
Volcano
Packaging of Porta Pinciana
The David
Celestino V
Drawing
Express impossibility
Ninna Nanna
even this year
Heavenly infinity corner
Above our future
Emergence

Olivestone

Joseph Beuys

Displayed in:

Experimental Museum of Contemporary Art Mu.Sp.Ac.

Experimental Museum of Contemporary Art Mu.Sp.Ac.

Piazza d'Arti, L'Aquila

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The multiple of blotting paper refers to the Olivestones action, held in 1984 at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, on the occasion of the Ouverture exhibition (organized by Rudi Fuchs to inaugurate the contemporary art museum). For this occasion Beuys uses five sandstone basins from Lettomanoppello (Abruzzo) from the 18th century. originally used to decant olive oil. However, he carries out a transformation, inserting blocks of the same stone but of a slightly smaller size, in order to create a gap of a few millimeters between their walls and those of the tanks. The five parallelepipeds are filled with about 200 liters of olive oil, which penetrates the stone until it is completely filtered, creating a patina on the surface that reflects the surrounding environment like a mirror. We therefore have on the one hand the crystalline material of the stone, rigidly geometric and, on the other, the organic and shapeless principle constituted by the oil: it is the tension between chaos and form, a necessary condition for the flow of life and creativity to be nourished. Olive oil cancels distances and creates continuity between the elements: it penetrates them and imbues them with itself, making two bodies a single reality.
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Title: Olivestone

Author: Joseph Beuys

Date: 1984

Technique: Printed absorbent paper dipped in olive oil

Displayed in: Experimental Museum of Contemporary Art Mu.Sp.Ac.

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