Joseph Beuys, Difesa Della Natura (Defense of Nature), Galleria Lucrezia De Domizio, SIGNED Poster, 1984

Size: 24 x 31.5 inches

Joseph Beuys created the term “social sculpture” to express his belief that art could transform society. This poster connects to Beuys’ interest in the environment, best expressed in the mid-1980s by his ongoing project to plant 7,000 oak trees along with stone markers in the heavily bombed city of Kassel, Germany. The Dia Art Foundation expanded the project to NYC with twenty-five trees and basalt stones along 22nd Street. This year, The Broad in Los Angeles used the image from the 1984 Beuys poster featured here to help publicize their own version of 7,000 Oaks, the planting of 100 California native oak trees in Elysian Park’s Chávez Ridge area.