untitled

postcard

signed and dated

"Auf dem Klavier steht ein Glas Bier und auf dem Rolls-Royce sitzt der Beuys."
(There is a glass of beer on the piano and Beuys is sitting on the Rolls-Royce)

This work combines the everyday with the symbolic - a glass of beer, a piano, a Rolls-Royce - and culminates in the artist's self-deprecating presence: “the Beuys”. The work plays with opposites: High culture (piano), luxury (Rolls-Royce), the popular (beer) and the artist himself as a figure between these worlds. The succinct, almost Dadaist form is reminiscent of a haiku or an aphorism - entirely in the spirit of his expanded concept of art: language as plastic material. The handwriting and the visible signature reinforce the personal character - here Beuys is not only the author, but a figure in his own art text.
(Christoph Fuchs, transl. by deepL)