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A collection of materials and essays contextualizing a performance
by Christiansen and Nørgaard in homage to Joseph Beuys. Joseph
Beuys performed one of his most radical pieces, the action
Manressa, on December 15, 1966, at the Galerie Schmela in
Düsseldorf. He was accompanied by the Danish artists Henning
Christiansen and Bjørn Nørgaard, who, in 1994, created Manresa
Hauptbahnhof (Manresa, Central Station), a new performance in
homage to the original. The performance was carried out in Manresa,
the city that both gave the name to the original action and was
where Saint Ignatius Loyola had the revelations that led him to
write his Spiritual Exercises, which Beuys considered
essential reading. This book brings together all the material
related to the 1994 performance—including images, scripts, and
preparatory drawings—as well as a selection of critical texts
that situate the action within its European context. In one essay,
Friedhelm Mennekes analyses the action by delving into its
spiritual meaning, exploring the symbolism of the objects employed.
In another, Pilar Parcerias uses the metaphor of the central
station to discover the city of reference and redraw the map of
Europe with unexpected connections between Manresa and Copenhagen.
In the final essay, Peter van der Meijden contextualizes the two
performances, which represented a meeting place for different
artistic personalities working on the cutting edge in creating a
new form of art. Â Â
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