Felt postcard - With Filzpostkarte, Joseph Beuys - Postcard (1) - 1985-1985

White serigraphy on gray felt – Staeck Edition, Heidelberg
With Filzpostkarte, Joseph Beuys transforms an everyday object, the postcard, into a conceptual artwork.
Made in gray felt, this creation adopts the graphic codes of a traditional postcard: dividing lines, space for the address and white typographic inscriptions. Its apparent simplicity contrasts with the symbolic richness of the material used.
The felt occupies a fundamental place in Beuys's universe. Associated with warmth, insulation and protection, it becomes here the support of an object normally intended for communication and exchange.
By replacing paper with a thick and unusual material, the artist diverts the original function of the postcard and invites us to rethink our relationship with ordinary objects.
A minimalist and emblematic work of Joseph Beuys's approach, where a familiar object becomes the support for a reflection on matter, communication and the place of art in our daily life.