30/04/2026
Palazzo Regale, 1985
Visited in 2019 in Düsseldorf, the final major installation from Beuys, a profound reflection on the human being and its voyage through worlds…
Seen by many as a funerary monument, evoking an otherworldly Egyptian scene, like a golden Pharaohs tomb
One vitrine is loaded with fat, food for the journey, there’s a backpack filled up and collecting life’s experiences. Copper in various forms appear, to send and receive communications
The other vitrine has two cymbals and a conch shell silently sounding, alluding to the ‘harmony of the spheres’. They overlook a sculptured iron head and a full length lynx fur coat, a coat Beuys wore in many of his actions.
Sitting somewhere between memory, ritual and meditation, the world of Devachan is suggested, a world where “the sky is golden”
This is a must see
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