Angel Orensanz "Meets" Joseph Beuys in Kassel

Sculptor Angel Orensanz is in Kassel (Germany) participating in the Documenta, but in reality he traveled to "meet" Joseph Beuys. The revolutionary German artist carried in Kassel (1982) an art experiment of transcendental nature. He planted through the City of Kassel seven thousand oak trees accompanied by a stele in basalt next to each tree.

Orensanz landed in Kassel with a cargo of his canvasses in bright colors that he has dispersed throughout the city. The canvasses of Orensanz in numerous points of the city contribute a semantic ambiguity, both festive and alarming. Are these canvasses an alarm code of some eminent situation or do they salute the Documenta itself? They are not a permanent fixture but a transitory gesture. That's precisely what Orensanz is attempting in Kassel, to continue the challenge of Beuys to produce more than a work, a meaning not unidirectional but multiple and referential.

The oaks of Joseph Beuys and his steles go almost unnoticed in Kassel but they have reached the culture and art of the entire world. The relevance of Orensanz's Kassel interventions is not in the exchange value of the pieces but in their visual pull at a specific place and time.

This year Kassel Documenta opened on June 16th and will close on September 23d. Angel Orensanz will carry his intervention in Kassel in three occasions, always early in the morning and without prior announcement. Orensanz's intervention does not come clothed as an object "but as an event, soaked in intention, meaning and intrigue, in the words of the artist himself".