Specular portrait of Joseph Beuys

Fresco with sand and pigments.

Cm. 130 x 160.

 

The fresco portrait of Joseph Beuys, painted by the Neapolitan artist, Fabrizio Ruggiero, was initially realized for the exhibition
A Bruit Secret and Pandora's Box.

A Bruit Secret and Pandora's Box

Joseph Boys partrait was then part of  The Transformative Power of Art, an exhibition hosted at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò of New York University.

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò of New York University

NYU Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini with the artist Fabrizio Ruggiero

Stefano Albertini and Giorgio Van Straten

The portrait of Joseph Beuys created using the ancient fresco technique was also the subject of the installation:
SHAMAN, perform a miracle! 

SHAMAN, perform a miracle!

In SHAMAN, perform a miracle!- a votive installation dedicated to Joseph Beuys- Fabrizio Ruggiero, using a touch of irony, focused on the inborn contradictions of the process put into existence by some dealers and speculators in the Contemporary Art System in order to convert artists into financial assets by metamorphosing them into Stars of the Art System.
Beuys promoted a change in society as a whole by his term Soziale Plastik, -Social Sculpture- to show his idea of art’s potential to transform society.
The system of contemporary art does not promote a general change to the world like the one proposed by Josef Beuys.
Aesthetics and ethics come into conflict in the context of the Art-System; since they refer not only to the integrity of the individuals and to their social competence, but also to the understanding of an artist in relation to his artistic creation and the integrity of his/her production. 
The conduct of an artist and the works produced in such a way should be a good example for society and its elite to reshape terms such as Ethic, rather than producing speculative bubbles.
Recently, the fresco portrait of Joseph Beuys was part of the exhibition The Transformative Power of Art and Ideas at the La Limanaia of Villa La Pietra, home of the New York University in Florence, Italy.

Davide Lombardo and Fabrizio Ruggiero
- excerpt from a conversation:
at Villa La Pietra, New York University, Florence.