Typescript on paper on 2 cardboards
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Score Siberian Symphony
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
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Beuys, Joseph, action, ‘Siberian Symphony’
fine art and design, named works
non-representational
objects
text
paper unique typescript 2 cardboards
1 May 2012 – 31 October 2012
2012-10-31
1 May 2012 – 31 October 2012
2012-10-31
2012-05-01
The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel)
http://www.imj.org.il
2012-05-01
Joseph Beuys - Tadeusz Kantor: Memory
Loan-out
Score for Siberian Symphony
support (left): 309 × 209 mm
support (right): 297 × 212 mm
frame: 680 × 525 × 38 mm
<a href="/search?gid=999999788" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">ARTIST ROOMS</a>
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>The title of this work translates as 'Score for Siberian Symphony'. This refers to the artist's first performance or 'action' in February 1963, called 'Siberian Symphony'. The central part of the performance was a piano composition by Beuys, as the word 'score' indicates. This was blended into a piece of music by the early twentieth-century, avant-garde composer Erik Satie. The music was supported by props, including lumps of clay connected by wire and a blackboard with a dead hare hung on it. The simple style of this collage is reminiscent of the artist's early list-style drawings, which use words for visual effect and structure.</p>

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abstraction Beuys, Joseph, action, ‘Siberian Symphony’ fine art and design, named works non-representational objects text