Capri battery
| Capri battery |
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| Joseph Beuys , 1985 |
| Multiple |
| Edition of 200 copies
Link to the picture |
The Capri battery is a multiple with a print run of 200 copies by Joseph Beuys from 1985.
The multiple
The work consists of an incandescent lamp with a yellow, opaque glass body in a simple black lamp holder, which has a plug on the base. There is a lemon on top of it. The arrangement suggests that the solar energy converted by the plant organism flows as an electric current through the incandescent lamp and makes it glow continuously. As the heaviest part, the lemon holds the whole - roughly right-angled - structure; the light bulb protrudes diagonally upwards. The object was placed in a wooden box with Beuys' instructions for use “JOSEPH BEUYS. Capri battery. Replace the battery after 1000 hours " sold.
Emergence
At the end of May 1985, Joseph Beuys fell ill with interstitial pneumonia . During a convalescent stay in Naples and on Capri from September 3 to 18, 1985, the sculpture Scala Libera, 1985 , and the prototype of the Capri battery were created . It was created in the "Villa Quattro Venti" of the gallery owner Lucio Amelio on Capri. On October 18, 1985, Amelio exhibited a showcase in his gallery in Naples. Joseph Beuys placed the object asymmetrically on the narrow side in the showcase. The multiple was later produced by Amelio and published in an edition of 200 copies.
Expo 2000
At Expo 2000 , North Rhine-Westphalia presented itself in the German pavilion with Beuys' Capri battery, the smallest object in the sixteen federal states. After the world exhibition, the Beuys collection in the NRW art collection was expanded to include the Capri battery .
Art history quotes
The Capri battery is one of the better-known works by Beuys and has been cited numerous times. In 2010, Susi Gelb created the objects Capri-Batterie EU-Standard and Capri-Batterie Asia-Standard . In the Capri Battery, the unknown versions by Alexander Janz , the lemon in the original work was replaced by other fruits and the color of the lightbulbs was adapted.
literature
- Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Hrsg.): Insights. The 20th century in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Hatje Kantz Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0853-7 .
- Joseph Beuys, Jörg Schellmann (Ed.): The Multiples. Catalog raisonné of the edition objects and prints. Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88814-199-0 .
- Joseph Beuys: Talking about Germany. Speech of November 20, 1985 in the Munich Kammerspiele, FIU-Verlag, Wangen 2002, ISBN 3-928780-14-X .
See also
Web links
- Photography and further information on the installation Capri Battery, Expo 2000 ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Grober: Rethinking the good life - cultural resources for a solar age. In: From Politics and Contemporary History . B 37, 2004 ( online ).
- ↑ Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Ed.): Insights. The 20th century in the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection, Düsseldorf. , Hatje Kantz Verlag, Düsseldorf 2000, p. 368.
- ↑ The German Pavilion - Expo2000, North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW at the EXPO 2000 , see web link
- ↑ http://www.susigelb.de
- ↑ cf. Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn: dOCUMENTA (13) Das Logbuch, catalog 1.3; P. 27f.
- ↑ Figures ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
