Acorns from 7000 Oaks seed new artwork fulfilling Beuys' hope to plant an oak wood in Scotland
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Acorns from 7000 Oaks seed new artwork fulfilling Beuys' hope to plant an oak wood in Scotland
Saplings from Beuys 7000 Oaks.



EDINBURGH.- Inspired by Joseph Beuys seminal 7000 Oaks Deveron Arts has commissioned artist Caroline Wendling to create a new piece of land art to be sited in north east Scotland. Through the work Wendling, who comes from Lorraine on the border between France and Germany, will reflect on the possibilities of peace in the context of the WW1 centenary, and explore the legacy of WWI war for contemporary society.

“Joseph Beuys was an artist with an ardent interest in politics, in particular those relating to peace and ecology,” says Claudia Zeiske, Director of Deveron Arts. “He visited Scotland and became entranced by the Celtic tradition, the landscape and the mythological histories of the area. Joseph Beuys' work has, to a large extent, informed the work of Deveron Arts to date.”

“Beuys came to Scotland, but due to his untimely death never managed to fulfil his ambition to plant an oak wood here. It has been our long-term hope to make Beuys’ dream come true,” she adds.

In 2012 Zeiske collected and seeded acorns from Joseph Beuys' 7000 oaks project in Kassel some 60 of them have germinated and are now ready to be planted as part of Caroline Wendling’s artwork.

2014 saw the beginning of a programme of commemorations for the First World War. More than 9 million combatants were killed. In Huntly, a rural town of 4,000 people, some 182 soldiers are known to have lost their lives, whilst the number of those that came back wounded and traumatized remains uncounted.

“Beside those who went to war, there were also conscientious objectors who for a variety of reasons refused to fight,” adds Zeiske, “Beuys was particularly interested in the politics of peace so through this new work Caroline is particularly focusing on the WWI conscientious objectors.”

Wendling has started to recruit “an army” of tree planters, and pupils from The Gordon Schools have already collected small stones from the WWI battlefields which will be buried with the saplings at the planting. Meanwhile, Wendling will use limestone from quarries close to the western front in place of the basalt in Beuys’ original work.

She is also be hosting a series of exploratory walks to choose the best site for the oaks in the Huntly area.

The tree planting is expected to take place during the weekend of 30 March.










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