LOUWRIEN WIJERS, Zo sprak Joseph Beuys in Tokyo, 2011
each 34 x 46 cm, 9 parts
Louwrien Wijers (1941) occupies a special position in the visual arts.
From a journalistic perspective, she is a visual-language artist who feels so involved in content with the ideas of artists such as Ben d'Armagnac, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol or a religious leader such as the Dalai Lama that she makes their ideas part of her work. She does not avoid conversations, interviews and panel discussions, on the contrary she embraces them.
In 'This is how Joseph Beuys spoke in Tokyo' (2011) she uses quotes from a lecture by Joseph Beuys and combines them with images of her three goats Beppe, Stipje and Poppie.
In her work, Louwrien Wijers focuses above all on thinking in general and the consequences that this has for all of us as individuals. In addition to ethics and healthy food, visual arts are of great importance in achieving a reconciliation of theory and practice.