Fund (Environment)
Fond (French-Latin: Grund, Fundus; spelling of the artist: FOND ) is the name of several installations and environments by the German artist Joseph Beuys , which were created between 1966 and 1980.
The work
In 1957, Beuys referred to a solid iron block on an iron plate as Fond 0 + Eisenplatte.
Fond I is a preserving jar with preserved pears that his mother had given him and that he elevated to the status of an energy carrier or "energetic" object in 1957 after overcoming his depression .
In 1968 he titled an installation consisting of two tables covered with copper sheet , next to which batteries, glass tubes and wires lie, as Fond II .
Fond III was shown for the first time in the Schmela Gallery in Düsseldorf . Georg Jappe wrote in the FAZ on February 11, 1969: “[...] nine huge stacks of felt, each made up of a hundred large, gray felt sheets, give the oppressive impression of a depot under dim lighting, where the stored material appears to have been unredeemed Activity waits. ” Jappe quoted Beuys as saying: “ At the beginning of my work, I may have started from feelings, but ideas have now crystallized. The primary idea here was the battery. These felt stacks ... are aggregates, the copper plate is the conductor. This creates a kind of power plant for me from the energy and heat storage of the felt, a static action. "
This was followed in 1976 by further installations in the Schmela Gallery and in 1979 at the XV. São Paulo Biennial . The Brasilian Fond is an environment made up of four 1.60 m high stacks of felt that are cut out half-round on one side and stand like four large horseshoes on a copper plate. The Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo , which took part in the Beuys 7000 oak campaign at documenta 7 , acquired another fund environment .
Fond 0 + Eisenplatte , Fond II and Fond III finally flowed into the Beuys block in Darmstadt .
literature
- Eva, Wenzel, Jessyka Beuys: Joseph Beuys, Block Beuys. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-88814-288-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heiner Stachelhaus : Joseph Beuys. Düsseldorf 1987, pp. 189ff
- ^ Block Beuys, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt