The name came to China Beuys in 1980s, 90s into artist and translator's vision, to the new century ushered in the opportunity we met with him. From September 7, 2013 to November 15th, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum launched the "social sculpture: in the Chinese Beuys, German artist exhibition information. Photos and images of the dynamic picture of diffusion in the exhibition hall, exhibition party according to the clues, the title of the work list, with text, illustrations and related auxiliary background, to a past (Beuys was born 1921, died 1986) to pay tribute to the western modern art masters.

As has been the world 20 years the concept of art masters, the original is to Chinese Beuys does not seem so important to convey exhibition information has put the essence and the concept of conceptual art effectively spread. Moreover, many of his works is a spot in the "action", after its birth disappeared immediately, unable to move. This reminds me of the words of Foucault: "I would like my book as a scalpel, burning bottles or underground tunnels for a class of things, I hope they are used as a firecracker to ashes." As a concept has been setting off firecrackers, here again set off again, not only witnessed the history of art, but also has a realistic significance for us to re.

Beuys's widow Ava now faced such embarrassment: 3 years ago, she sued the Castle Museum in a Mo Elan exhibition show a picture of the behavior of income Beuys as infringement, initially obtained several local court in Dusseldorf, but in May this year, the German Supreme Court rejected this. The photos are not recorded performances of works adapted, is the key to a conclusion of the court, but experts in Europe this visual art copyright still exist differences. This episode seems to be held that "works" in the collection of Beuys exhibition Chinese difficulty from the side. The scene of the fireworks behavior Beuys from some kind of meaning can not be copied, can also be understood as Ava refused to copy it, only the creation of a one-time.

For me this was classical art and Impressionist influence people, identified in the history of Western art Beuys achievements there has been some confusion -- it could not find a logical chain between him and the past great artists (Picasso, Daly and other artists before in did not have this feeling). These years to break is caused by the fame of Beuys puzzle.

Is really close to the Beuys winter of 2011, I stood in the "Mao Zhanyi" Berlin Hamburg train station at the Museum of modern art, but do not understand the situation did not change. Later went to Munich's Museum of modern art, see many pieces of finished products: telephone, clay, iron pots, etc. it looks like on the battlefield with the real, but as the Paleolithic ancestors of the antiquities like display, exudes a cold smell, like oil such as East and West also issued a rancid scent...... In a room on the ground floor, the wrong placed some strip stone, engraved with the circular mark, when you see the title "the end of twentieth Century," when the mind with the saying of Marx: "all solid things are gone".

In the spring of 2012, Paris Pompidou Art Center, Beuys once again appeared". Brown felt a bundle vertically stacked up, covered in a cottage, in the middle of the field stood a black piano. The house was filled with thick artificial fiber felt the smell, the smell seems to absorb all the sounds. No one has ever tried to play the piano in this environment. In "the piano" and felt the works, piano is mute. The construction site has a strong solemn and quiet, felt stacked form lines seem to be the keys of the piano, is a silent drama. It is from this should be called the device works, I feel the ability to create an atmosphere of beuys. In the room filled with blankets, people will can't help to quiet, the room temperature seems to be rising. I have known in advance, during World War II, Beuys did a pilot in the air force, he was in distress when the Tatars saved with felt, this is his personal review about the warm. So, this thick felt really not as Ionesco "the chair" that is to interpret, oppression or saved for people, and Beuys absurdist playwrights were very different. In addition, the piano and the acoustic pronunciation felt from the visual and mutual digestion and destruction of the tension, the piano as a humanist symbol, felt as a product of the modern world, the two are a kind of opposition, there is also a unified, classical and modern indifference of warmth without words.

In twentieth Century the political history of the cruel social reality, is the entrance to understand Beuys, from this perspective, I doubt it eased. Another of his piano and related works, only see the photo to a military was shocked: Canvas wrapped tightly on the piano with the Red Cross, the humanistic dignity lost. When Zweig and his wife heard that Dresden was blown up after committing suicide is not based on the same pain? In 1974, Beuys with a wolf in a room for three days ("prairie wolf: I love the United States and the United States also love me"), this is really served in the army for 5 years and fought for the German Nazi outrageous behavior art