What are the most unusual materials you have ever seen used in a mixed and multimedia art work:
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honey, grease (also mouldy) on materials Joseph Beuys used (and why): http://www.walkerart.org/archive/C/9C43F9ACA34F1B386167.htm Biography & links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys Enjoy!
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In art today, you could say that there are no unusual materials anymore. Anything from blood and other bodily fluids to precious metal, and even immaterial things such as light and air have been used. James Turrell uses light, Lawrence Weiner uses language, James Lee Byars used gold and ephemeral material such as his own whispers. He once sent me a letter containing a small red glass bead as an invitation to one of his shows. Any material can become unusual if it is transformed into art. I would say in the case of Joseph Beuys, this great German shaman, the point is that he was able to induce magic into the most ordinary and "usual" materials.
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I've seen a painting of a space scene that featured cogwheels and other parts from dismantled clocks and watches. It was titled "Space and Time"
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