Wood, accumulator, clay and wire
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
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Table with Accumulator
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
battery
box
clay
creativity
electrical appliances
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
energy
environment / nature
furnishings
natural phenomena
objects
regeneration
table
tools and machinery
transformation
universal concepts
vessels and containers
wire
<p>In this work, an accumulator – a kind of rechargeable battery in which energy can be stored - is attached by wires to two pieces of clay, as if drawing power from the earth itself. For Beuys, the production and storage of energy was a metaphor for the creative and spiritual energy that he wanted to foster both in the individual viewer and in society as a whole. This was one of the works that Beuys included in the 1982 Zeitgeist exhibition, accompanying the various elements of <i>Lightning with Stag in its Glare</i>.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2010</em></p>
sculpture wood accumulator clay wire
4 July 2009 – 27 September 2009
2009-09-27
4 July 2009 – 27 September 2009
2009-09-27
2009-07-04
De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill on Sea, UK)
http://www.dlwp.com/
2009-07-04
ARTIST ROOMS 2009: Joseph Beuys
Loan-out
6 August 2010 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
6 August 2010 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
2010-08-06
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2010-08-06
ARTIST ROOMS Joseph Beuys
Collection based display
13 October 2017 – 21 January 2018
2018-01-21
13 October 2017 – 21 January 2018
2018-01-21
2017-10-13
Leeds Art Gallery (Leeds, UK)
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/artgallery/
2017-10-13
ARTIST ROOMS 2017: Joseph Beuys
Loan-out
Table with Accumulator
Overall display dimensions variable
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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>In this work, an accumulator – a kind of rechargeable battery in which energy can be stored - is attached by wires to two pieces of clay, as if drawing power from the earth itself. For Beuys, the production and storage of energy was a metaphor for the creative and spiritual energy that he wanted to foster both in the individual viewer and in society as a whole. This was one of the works that Beuys included in the 1982 Zeitgeist exhibition, accompanying the various elements of <i>Lightning with Stag in its Glare</i>.</p>

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battery box clay creativity electrical appliances emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas energy environment / nature furnishings natural phenomena objects regeneration table tools and machinery transformation universal concepts vessels and containers wire