Lot 124 Joseph Beuys. Countdown 2000. 1981. …

Countdown 2000. 1981. Farboffset auf Velin. 80 x 55 cm (88 x 64 cm). Signiert und nummeriert. Punktuell auf Unterlage montiert. - Mit wenigen sehr schwachen, kaum sichtbaren Bereibungen. Insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. Ausgezeichneter, fein strukturierter Druck der großformatigen Komposition mit schmalem Rand.

Fluxus – Eines von 2000 Exemplaren. - Schellmann 377, S. 302. - Entstanden und herausgegeben im Rahmen des Projekts Committee 200, Hamburg/München, als gemeinsame Edition mit Andy Warhol anlässlich der bevorstehenden Jahrtausendwende. Das Blatt zeigt einen maschinell erstellten Computerkalender, der vom 1.1.1980 bis zum 1.1.2000 reicht und neben jedem Datum den Countdown bis zur Jahrtausendwende auflistet. Da der erste Druck fehlerhaft war, korrigierte Beuys ihn eigenhändig mit roter Schrift und verwandelt so mit minimalem Eingriff ein Artefakt der frühen Computerkultur in ein kritisches Statement zur Fehlbarkeit digitaler Systeme.

Fluxus – Colour offset on laid paper. Signed and numbered. Partially mounted on backing board. - With a few very faint, barely visible scuffs. Overall in very good and clean condition. An excellent, finely textured print of the large-format composition with a narrow margin. - One of 2000 copies. - Schellmann 377, p. 302. - Produced and published as part of the Committee 200 project, Hamburg/Munich, as a joint edition with Andy Warhol to mark the approaching turn of the millennium. The sheet shows a machine-generated computer calendar running from 1 January 1980 to 1 January 2000, listing the countdown to the turn of the millennium next to each date. As the first print was faulty, Beuys corrected it by hand in red ink, thereby transforming, with minimal intervention, an artefact of early computer culture into a critical statement on the fallibility of digital systems.

Startprice: 750 €
Estimate: 850 €

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