Del 08/04/08 al 01/06/08

The workshop takes lasts 1h. 30 min per group. These workshops are addressed to all types of public: students, adults, occupational centres, etc. Contact telephone 963 365 913.

Joseph Beuys's didactic seeks to immerse the participants in the creative process of this famous German artist. By it the room of work is covered with felt, element used continuously in his work in such a way that the walls and the soil seem to melt in one. From the soil a few volumes are arising like a bucket that turn into our place of work; tables, a few boxes of felt opened towards our legs indicate us that we have to penetrate in this space to place in a comfortable way. This way, we enter in a symbolic form Joseph Beuys's interior world to discover his language and the sensations that this one provokes. In this space and with the felt like heat accumulator and energy we listen a metronome, which indicates us that the time goes by and at the we form a active background part it of this world in which we have to express ourselves and realize our contribution. Once arranged in the places of work, we confront the personal challenge in which the experiences of every participant are going to be the protagonists. The work is realized from different objects that are at the disposal of the participants of the workshop (besides the oves everyone wants to contribute), and that are predominantly of gray color, as the used ones by the proper Beuys. There are also plastilina, that can be applied in the objects and be used like fat. Beuys's materials are not only introduced as formal elements, but at the same time or in a primary way, they are carriers of certain properties as the cold, the heat, the isolation or the volume. This aspect is maybe the least habitual of the deep knowledge of a work of art: the active perception of the invisible thing. The felt, as the fat, has a homogeneous nature in the sense of not having an internal structure. It is a very compressed, amorphous material, with an unequal structure, characteristics, which make it so attractive for the artist. Once the work is finished, a mold of the FIU is applied to it, Free International University, as the one are that Beuys used, and finally it is introduced in an urn of plastic material in so that every artist can take his work finished.