Cardboard and string
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-beuys-747" aria-label="More by Joseph Beuys" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Beuys</a>
Object MANRESA
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
abstraction
arts
Beuys, Joseph, sculpture
event: action, Joseph Beuys, ‘Manresa’, Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, 1966
fine art and design, named works
geometric
history
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
Loyola, Ignatius of, ‘The Autobiography’
Loyola, Ignatius of, ‘The Spiritual Exercises’
non-representational
objects
relief cardboard string
1 April 2010 – 27 September 2010
2010-09-27
1 April 2010 – 27 September 2010
2010-09-27
2010-04-01
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery (Glasgow, UK)
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk
2010-04-01
ARTIST ROOMS 2010: Joseph Beuys
Loan-out
Object for MANRESA
support: 447 × 311 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>In 1966, Beuys and his friend Per Kirkeby made an 'imaginary' journey with their wives to the village of Manresa in the Pyrenees. Kirkeby subsequently wrote about the journey and Beuys performed the 'action' 'Manresa' later that year. The village is significant for its connection with Ignatius Loyola who spent several months there in meditation, prior to writing his volume of prayers 'Spiritual Exercises'. The book is based around the idea that 'Intuition is a higher form of reason' – a belief the artist shared. The village is a place of pilgrimage for Catholics and is generally associated with spiritual enlightenment. Beuys used this circular object in his 'Manresa' 'action'.</p>

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abstraction arts Beuys, Joseph, sculpture event: action, Joseph Beuys, ‘Manresa’, Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, 1966 fine art and design, named works geometric history literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) Loyola, Ignatius of, ‘The Autobiography’ Loyola, Ignatius of, ‘The Spiritual Exercises’ non-representational objects