Sturtevant
Beuys La Rivulozione Siamo Noi, 1988/92

Artist
Sturtevant

Title
Beuys La Rivulozione Siamo Noi

Year of creation
1988/92

Technique and dimensions
Colored offset printing, 95.2 x 51 cm, edition: 60

Year of acquisition
2008

Acquisition of the foundation

Andy Warhol's "Flowers" and "Marilyns", Marcel Duchamp's "Mona Lisa", Jasper John's legendary flag and number paintings, Frank Stella's "The Flag High!" and Anselm Kiefer's lead airplane - all of these works of art can be rediscovered in Elaine Sturtevant's work. Elaine Sturtevant pursues her conceptual strategy of imitation with unique consistency and radicalism. From 1964 onwards she decided to repeat the works of her fellow artists, thereby expanding current views of aesthetics and achieving a surprising effect by doubling what was already available, which raised the question of authorship, the artist's creative role, intellectual property, authenticity and the disposition of Originality and originality take center stage. Revealing her artistic far-sightedness, she usually selected today's "icons" of recent art history very close to the original work, which almost gives her work a proclamatory character. The differences to the original work are not immediately obvious, but they can be recognized. It is not just reproduced, Sturtevant repeats, thinks further and reflects, just as she transforms herself into the role of Joseph Beuys, for example. Beuys can be identified through his own iconography, which he developed in the 1960s with a hat, fishing vest, shoulder bag, jeans and fur boots. Sturtevant re-stages the appearance of the art revolutionary in 1988 by showing herself in the same accessories and demonstrating the emphatic forward direction towards the audience.