a review of Joseph Beuys' show at Tate Modern, London called “Actions, Vitrines, Environments”

AT: TATE Modern Gallery, London
Between: 4th February -- 2nd May 2005

Introduction:

I am an art critic from Bangalore writing about art in Kannada for two decades. I had to wait precisely for 'two decades' to get a scholarship based on my writings in Kannada!
So, I was in London for about 7 months. One of the reason for writing the review below, of an European ICON in visual culture is the severe London cold. It always drove me 'into' the galleries. The second reason is that those works are ROLE MODELS for contemporary Indian artist.

However, as a Kannadiga, proud of understanding the world through 'Kannada experience', this review is my reaction to an European master, seen live. Earlier, 90 percent of the artworks I had seen and taught about was through 'reproductions' of the original. So the review, the 'Object' of the review and the European masters belong to Kannada as much as Shakespere is!  ಮುಂದೆ ಓದಿ »