The differences and similarities between Joseph Beuys and Joan Brossa gave rise to the idea of this joint exhibition at the Ana Serratosa Gallery. "El fieltro y el naipe" brings together in time and space two internationally renowned artists of the last 20th century. Very different paths that lead to plastic art outside their usual scene, and all of this influenced by the scientific positivism of the environment in which they lived.
Joseph Beuys
1978
30 x 40 cm
AS-822
Fotografía
Joan Brossa
1987
14 x 36 x 6 cm
AS-781
Mixta sobre madera
Joseph Beuys
1985
36 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
AS-835
Mixta sobre lienzo
Joan Brossa
1991
50 x 95 x 45 cm
AS-309
Mixta sobre madera
Joan Brossa
1988
5 x 13 x 15 cm
AS-786
Mixta sobre madera
Beuys' relationship with art begins during World War II, where he is spiritually reborn when his plane is found by a nomadic Tartar tribe in the Crimea. This makes him a critical artist, with an art charged with cultural agitation, without neglecting trends such as Dadaism, Minimal Art, and even Conceptual Art.
Far from what the viewer can imagine, this German artist was a great scholar who developed his own pedagogical method for the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf.
For his part Joan Brossa also begins his artistic activity in a warlike environment, in a post-war Spain. Although he began his career as a poet, soon his knowledge of Freud's psychoanalysis and anti-art will give rise to a wide range of works ranging from posters, through artist books and even sculpture.
