Very mixed media: Tate Modern has presented Joseph Beuys with clarity, but, asks Samson Spanier, how can any museum exhibit an artist whose work includes a 7000-tree forest?

Apollo | April 1, 2005| | Copyright

Joseph Beuys was the first artist to confont the silence, anger and denial that pervaded Germany after World War II, and the materials he required were fittingly unprecedented. Show Your Wound (1974/75) is an arrangement of hospital beds, blackboards, pitchforks and other items, originally staged in a disused underground passage in Munich. The hospital beds have boxes underneath them, and one can only assume that whatever life was once here has dripped into the boxes. There are two of each object in the room, all arranged side by side. This redundancy adds to the unease. The ...

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