http://www.vernissage.tv | On the occasion of the 100th year of Deutsche Banks presence in Turkey, Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) hosts an exhibition entitled Joseph Beuys and His Students Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection from 9 September until 1 November 2009.
The exhibition is the first to combine works on paper by Joseph Beuys with drawings, photographs and prints by his most important students: Peter Angermann, Lothar Baumgarten, Walter Dahn, Felix Droese, Imi Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Imi Knoebel, Inge Mahn, Ulrich Meister, Meuser, Blinky Palermo, Katharina Sieverding and Norbert Tadeusz. The show has been curated by Deutsche Bank Art Director Friedhelm Hütte and art critic Ahu Antmen.
In this video, Nazan Ölçer, Directrice of the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, and Britta Färber of Deutsche Bank Art talk about the museum and the current exhibition.
Joseph Beuys and His Students at Sakıp Sabancı Museum Istanbul. Opening and Press Tour, September 8 and 11, 2009.
◇ Deutsche Bank - ArtMag - 56 - on view - Joseph Beuys and his Students - Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection at the Sabanci Museum
The wide variety of artistic approaches demonstrates that independently of his own artistic position, Beuys saw himself as an educator and encouraged his students to pursue their own individual path. Thus, the spectrum ranges from the geometric, Russian Constructivist-inspired works of Imi Knoebel and Blinky Palermo and the photographic self-portraits of Katharina Sieverding to Jörg Immendorff’s ironic and expressive paintings that critically examined German post-war history and the role of the artist. Along with drawings, photographs, and prints by Peter Angermann, Lothar Baumgarten, Walter Dahn, Felix Droese, Imi Giese, Anselm Kiefer, Inge Mahn, Meuser, and Reiner Ruthenbeck, drawings by Norbert Tadeusz depicting Beuys’s legendary 1974 Coyote: I like America and America likes Me action at the New York René Block Gallery are also on show.
http://db-artmag.com/en/56/on-view/joseph-beuys-and-his-students---works-from-the-deutsche-bank-col/
◇ Joseph Beuys - Transformer (1979) - YouTube
"This 60-minute documentary features avant-garde German artist Joseph Beuys and his unique sculpture art during a 1979 exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The tape features Beuys' work, interviews with him, and footage of him speaking before the patrons at his Guggenheim showing. The main feature of the video is Beuys telling a little of his own history -- how his life changed when the Russians shot down his German airplane during World War II, as well as his opinions on art, mankind, the state of the world, and some of his artistic inspirations. This documentary captures the world of an artist at the pinnacle of his fame."
