Venice, an exhibition on Joseph Beuys at Palazzo Cini with 40 works

From April 20 to October 2, 2022, the Palazzo Cini Gallery in Venice will host an exhibition dedicated to Joseph Beuys (Krefeld, 1921 - Düsseldorf, 1986): it is titled Finely Articulated and is the event with which the gallery, the house-museum that holds masterpieces from the personal collection of the great patron Vittorio Cini, reopens to the public.

Painter, sculptor, performer and theorist, Joseph Beuys, was a multifaceted artist among the most influential and emblematic of the second half of the twentieth century and among the few truly capable of making art and life coincide. Beuys considered art the cure to society’s ills: a positive, healing force capable of awakening individual creativity, activating political awareness and stimulating social change. His poetics and artistic practice anticipated themes and reflections that, many years later, prove more relevant than ever: the relationship between human beings and nature, peace, art understood as social engagement and spiritual quest.

The exhibition, which takes its name from the main work on display in the Palazzo Cini itinerary, Backrest for a fine-limbed person (hare-type) of the 20th century AD, will present a selection of about 40 works by the master of conceptual art, whose 100th birthday was celebrated in 2021. The works focus on two major themes of the artist’s research. The first theme is related to the human body and figure and the second to the important and symbolic role that theanimal image plays in Joseph Beuys’ visual and conceptual world. Key works executed as early as the late 1940s and early 1950s and a significant and highly selected series of important works on paper and drawings will be on display.

Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the Giorgio Cini Foundation’s Institute of Art History, and realized in collaboration with Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, the exhibition, set up on the second floor of Palazzo Cini, will be open to the public from April 20 to October 2, 2022 every day of the week (except Tuesdays), ensuring that the public can admire the rare works on display. The Gallery, with its permanent collections, will remain open until Nov. 21, 2022(www.palazzocini.it).

Image: Joseph Beuys, Zwei Frauen (1955; pencil, watercolor, gouache and iron chloride on paper, 21 x 29.5 cm)

Venice, an exhibition on Joseph Beuys at Palazzo Cini with 40 works

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