Poster with original drawing
Beuys, Joseph
Berlin. Edition Hundertmark. 1970
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The poster reproduces the artist's voting card for the 1970 state election in Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany. In the poster Beuys protests against the current political hierarchy by refusing to choose. It proposes that German citizens should deposit their voting cards not in the election office, but at his Organisation der Nichtwähler, Freie Volksabstimmung, at no. 25 Andreasstraße.
The poster is found either in Beuys' plastic bag multiple of 1971, So kann die Parteiendiktatur uberwunden werden (How the Dictatorship of the Parties can be Overcome), and was also issued in Edition Hundertmark's first Karton.
Of great interest here is that on the verso of the poster Beuys has added a drawing, executed in blue pen, which again shows his concern for democracy in culture. For Beuys, real social change could only come about through creativity and freedom, and not by reforming the economy.
The result here is a typical drawing of the period by the artist, a kind of astrological chart embodying his ideas of the ideal state, in which democratic principles inform cultural life. It is a constellation delineating a structure for a harmonious social body. Here Beuys demonstrates, with a thin looping line connecting verbal descriptions - thinking, perceiving, creativity, freedom, feelings, soul, earth.
The verso of the poster is also stamped three times by Beuys with his blue cross Hauptstrom stamp, and he has also signed it three times in pencil.
The poster is found either in Beuys' plastic bag multiple of 1971, So kann die Parteiendiktatur uberwunden werden (How the Dictatorship of the Parties can be Overcome), and was also issued in Edition Hundertmark's first Karton.
Of great interest here is that on the verso of the poster Beuys has added a drawing, executed in blue pen, which again shows his concern for democracy in culture. For Beuys, real social change could only come about through creativity and freedom, and not by reforming the economy.
The result here is a typical drawing of the period by the artist, a kind of astrological chart embodying his ideas of the ideal state, in which democratic principles inform cultural life. It is a constellation delineating a structure for a harmonious social body. Here Beuys demonstrates, with a thin looping line connecting verbal descriptions - thinking, perceiving, creativity, freedom, feelings, soul, earth.
The verso of the poster is also stamped three times by Beuys with his blue cross Hauptstrom stamp, and he has also signed it three times in pencil.
Printed in single side of sheet (61 x 43 cm), with creasing due to folding as issued.
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