Beuys+Palermo exhibition posters and catalog

Published May 5, 2023

Beuys+Palermo is the title of an exhibition organized by Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in Saitama, and the National Museum of Art in Osaka.

Ambiant Sans is used together with an unidentified Japanese typeface for both the exhibition posters and collateral as well as for the catalog, which was published by My Book Service Inc. From book seller Do You Read Me?!:

This catalogue accompanies an exhibition by the same name held in 2021 in three venues across Japan. Joseph Beuys and Blinky Palermo were from different generations, but both experienced WWII and the postwar reconstruction, as teacher and pupil. The works of these two superficially contrasting German artists were alike in that both Beuys and Palermo endeavoured to restore art to the status of a raw, live endeavour. Composed primarily of works from the 1960s and ‘70s and detailed texts, the book explores the features of each of these two artists, while simultaneously searching for the latent power of their praxis in their involvement as they overlapped with each other.

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