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Plight (pronunciation (English): [ plaɪt ]) is an environment or an installation by the German artist Joseph Beuys (1921–1986).
plant
Plight was first installed and presented to the public in October 1985 at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London . The environment includes two almost soundproof rooms, which Beuys fully equipped with 284 double-row, 150 cm high felt rolls. The room had no daylight, the felt walls are only indirectly lit. In one of the rooms there is a closed concert grand . On this is a writing board with staves that is blank, on it is a clinical thermometer . The title of the installation translates as: Need, decay, difficult situation ; the English word arose from a corruption of the German word duty .
Plight was Joseph Beuys' last major work in Great Britain . Beuys died a year later in January 1986. The work has now been incorporated into the collection of the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris.
interpretation
At the opening of the exhibition, Beuys explained in an interview with the journalist Ruth Baumgarten:
“Plight is the result of an experiment on a special type of laboratory that pushes the boundaries of art. I turn to the vital, human sense of temperature because I have confronted the materialistic ideology of the visual arts, which reduces everything in an intellectual juxtaposition of subject and object. It is not the job of art to understand anything intellectual, because a logical sequence of sentences can do that much better. I want people to experience the force fields that they constitute. And for this purpose I address not only visual perception, but also the sense of balance and temperature, smell and feeling. Because you have to insist on reaching the central forces: thinking, feeling and will "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lothar Schirmer (ed.), Alain Bohrer (introductory): Joseph Beuys. An overview of the works, 1945–1985. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich / Paris / London 1996, ISBN 3-88814-810-3 , Fig. 147
- ^ Ruth Baumgarten: The Guardian. London 19th October 1985