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How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare () was a performance piece enacted by the German artist Joseph Beuys on 26 November 1965 at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. While it was only Beuys’s first solo exhibition in a private gallery, it is sometimes referred to as his best known action.
Process.
At the beginning of the performance Beuys locked the gallery doors from the inside, leaving the gallery-goers outside. They could observe the scene within only through
a sign of peace during the Cold War in the 1980s.
Body of work "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare" (performance, 1965).
Beuys's first solo exhibition in a private gallery opened on 26 November 1965 with one of the artist's most famous and compelling performances: "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare". The artist could be viewed through the glass of the gallery's window. His face was covered in honey and gold leaf, an iron slab was attached to his boot