Joseph Beuys at MAC

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo presents Chile's first-ever retrospective exhibition of the work of German artist Joseph Beuys. Titled Joseph Beuys. Obras 1955-1985, it will remain open to the public through October 5, 2014. The exhibition features more than 90 works, among them drawings, objects, sculptures, installations, videos, and the recordings of performances, to account for the artist's broad-ranging aesthetic universe. Visitors will encounter Beuys' early works and those he produced after his interaction with the Fluxus group. Throughout his life, Beuys developed a multidisciplinary body of work that posited radical ideas on political, social, and even spiritual topics. Among them, his reflection about the role of artists in society, his questioning of traditional teaching systems, his critique of elitism in the arts, his defense of the environment, and his proposal of freedom through creativity. Joseph Beuys. Obras 1955-1985 is curated buy Silke Thomas (Germany) and Rafael Raddi (Brazil), and it comes to Chile thanks to the combined efforts of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and the Itaú Foundation, co-organized by Galerie Thomas Modern (Germany) and the Plano Cultural Institute (Brazil), and the support of Proa Foundation (Argentina). The show is part of a Latin American tour that began in 2013 at the MAC in Niteroi and continued, in 2014, at Proa Foundation.