Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta

Joseph Beuys and Lucrezia De Domizio Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta

Joseph Beuys and Lucrezia De Domizio - De Rerum Natura is a book wrote by architect and composer (also with John Cage and Merce Cunningham) in celebration of Beuys' centennial and of the 50 years of Lucrezia De Domizio projects about the German great artist, her great friend. Joseph Beuys lived part of his life in Italy, thanks to Lucrezia De Domizio, Baroness Durini, and her husband, Baron Durini. In the course of the years, not only Beuys created a huge project in the Italian mountains - Difesa della Natura, surely the biggest work of his life - as Baroness Durini transformed the ancient village of Bolognano, dated of the 1,000, in one of the most spectacular contemporary art open-air museums of the world. In 2021, Lucrezia De Domizio inaugurated in Bolognano the first museum dedicated to Beuys' work and thought. Emanuel Pimenta is a close friend of Lucrezia De Domizio since 1990, when both start developing common projects on art in several countries. The book joins 33 Pimenta's texts about Joseph Beuys and Lucrezia De Domizio written since 1990. It also includes dozens of rare photos, several of Beuys made by Baron Durini and also about the famous Baroness's projects in the last 30 years. It is a book that not only can illuminate the historical presence of Beuys in Italy as can help for a better comprehension of his works and ideas.