Article about D.C. bartender/chalk artist Patrick Owens:
Others might be frustrated working in the impermanent, fragile medium that is chalk art, but not Owens. “That’s what made it special,” he says. “The impending doom of it.” It’s a concept he’s familiar with as a bartender: He’s used to watching his creations disappear in a few gulps.
(via definitelytotally)
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Tate Modern| Past Exhibitions | Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments
Blackboards 1972 and 1978
Beuys regarded teaching as an essential element of his work as an artist. He was a profoundly charismatic and inspirational professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, where he taught a generation of German artists. Beuys’s relationship with the authorities at the academy was always stormy, and he was dismissed in 1972. However, by then he was expounding his theories of sculpture, democracy and green politics at conferences and art galleries around the world. These lectures were closer in spirit to Actions than to traditional academic practice, and the blackboards that he invariably covered in idiosyncratic diagrams and Beuysian slogans have come to be regarded as works in their own right. Several of the blackboards shown here are preserved from Beuys’s lectures at the Tate Gallery in 1972, which were described by the critic Caroline Tisdall as ‘a blend of art, politics, personal charisma, paradox and Utopian proposition’.
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