Not on display
- Artist
- Joseph Beuys 1921–1986
- Original title
- Entwurf fur ein Filzenvironment
- Medium
- Wood, glass, felt, oil paint and lead
- Dimensions
- Displayed: 1840 x 1680 x 840 mm
object (vitrine): 1840 x 1680 x 840 mm
object (felt object): 630 x 700 x 220 mm - Collection
- ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland
- Acquisition
- ARTIST ROOMS Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
- Reference
- AR00619
Online caption
The neat rolls of grey felt on painted wood inside this vitrine are intended as a model for an 'environment'. Felt insulates and absorbs, representing protection but also a sense of constriction, like being suffocated. The same type of felt rolls are seen in the 'environment' 'Plight' (1958/1985), now in the Pompidou Centre, in which the walls and ceiling are covered with felt to create a stifling atmosphere. Beuys used felt in an infamous 'action' performed the same year this model was made. 'The Chief' saw the artist being wrapped in a felt blanket, fighting claustrophobia to lie practically still, as if in a coffin, for a nine-hour period.
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