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Item: Fond IV/4

1975

Object, 48.5 x 68 cm.
Materials: copper plate, 4 black and white photographs

Collection: Isi Fizman.

This work used by Beuys for his performance as part of the Salto Arte circus event in Brussels in 1975, which coincided with the Je - Nous = Ik – Wij exhibition at the Museum of Ixelles curated by Harald Szeemann. The work is directly related to the larger installation Fond IV/4 exhibited in Je - Nous = Ik – Wij. The circus event was organised to raise funds for Isi Fiszman and Jean-Claude Garot's leftist magazine Pour. Between 1954 and 1984, Beuys made a series of works with the title Fond (meaning 'base', but also 'background') which all thematise the storage and emission of energy.

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