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7000 Oaks – City Forestation Instead of City Administration (German: 7000 Eichen – Stadtverwaldung statt Stadtverwaltung) is a work of land art by the German artist Joseph Beuys. It was first publicly presented in 1982 at documenta 7.
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Is the planting of 7 thousand oak trees a symbolic beginning?
In 1982, artist, environmental activist and German Green Party founder Joseph Beuys began what was arguably his most seminal work: the planting of 7,000 oak trees around a city in central...
The artist intended 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) to be an ongoing social sculpture movement that would extend his philosophy of urban renewal around the world. Tree and stone installations took place in several other cities, including Sydney, before the project was officially concluded in 1987.
Jan 5, 2021 · Today, Beuys is best remembered for his more grandiose gestures—for example, 7000 Oaks (1982), a work involving the planting of thousands of trees, each of them with a basalt stone placed ...
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Dec 6, 2019 · what is possibly the best example of the Art of Arboriculture, in the fascinating story of the Artist and ‘social sculptor’, Joseph Beuys: In March 1982, 7000 basalt rocks appeared on the lawn of the Fridericianum, the oldest public museum in Kassel, Germany.
Joseph Beuys’s project 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) began in 1982 at Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany. His plan called for the planting of 7,000 trees—each paired with a columnar basalt stone approximately four feet high and positioned above ground—throughout the greater city of Kassel.
This all-inclusive and contentious ideal is perhaps best reflected in the artist's 7000 Oaks (1982-87), a work of land art, urbanization and environmentalism all in one. Following a long illness, Beuys succumbed to heart failure on January 23, 1986 in Düsseldorf, not far from his place of birth.
