Beuys & Palermo branding Artefacts of antiquity through the

Artefacts of antiquity through the ages and into the present day – Palazzo Rucellai

Martin Azambuja

uncaptioned photographs

The very name conjures images of ruby red tomatoes

Beuys & Palermo branding Artefacts of antiquity through theThis catalogue accompanies an exhibition by the same name held in 2021 in three venues across Japan. Joseph Beuys and Blinky Palermo were from different generations, but both experienced WWII and the postwar reconstruction, as teacher and pupil. The works of these two superficially contrasting German artists were alike in that both Beuys and Palermo endeavoured to restore art to the status of a raw, live endeavour. Composed primarily of works from the