June 7 - August 17, 2024
From Akim Monet Fine Arts:
“Akim Monet Fine Arts is pleased to present TAMPER EVIDENT Joseph Beuys, an online selling exhibition. This show brings together 13 iconic works by German artist, teacher, performance artist, and art theorist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), and features an original installation by Akim Monet that gives its title to the exhibition. This installation incorporates and transmutes eight examples of the Beuys multiple, Rose for Direct Democracy (1973) into a provocative commentary on the obfuscation of fact in our modern world.
As Beuys well knew, Democracy is precarious, and one of the most essential components of an effective democracy is Free Press. Trusted news anchors are now faded bygones –instead, journalists in America and abroad face a new McCarthyism, claims of voter fraud are increasingly common, “alternative facts” are substituted for truth, and every news outlet has something different to say depending which side they are on. The works in TAMPER EVIDENT Joseph Beuys offer a query around the realities of truth and democracy, questioning the influence of intuition and rationality (or lack thereof) on our perceptions of reality.
TAMPER EVIDENT, online from June 7th to August 17, 2024, continues the gallery’s legacy of commitment to curatorial innovation and integrity. This exhibition takes place in advance of the August launch of a brick-and-mortar gallery for Akim Monet Fine Arts in Dallas’ Design District. Featured works by Joseph Beuys include: Katalog Museum Mönchengladbach (1967), the multiple edited to mark the very first institutional presentation of Beuys’ work in a museum setting; Intuitionskiste (1968) a fine example of Beuys’ “empty box” that gets infused with meaning as it is discussed upon discovery, Der Tisch (1968) the Master 16mm from which the eponymous video was released; Art Information of Anatol Herzfeld (1971), Rose for Direct Democracy (1973), Dillinger (1974), Noiseless Blackboard Eraser (1974), Kunst=KAPITAL (1979), Europawahl: Die Grünen (1979), Untitled (signed Reichsbanknote) (1980), Edition May 12 1981 (1981), Rundbrief F.I.U. (1982), and Filzwinkel (1985).”
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