Fluxus Joseph Beuys Everything goes better with a little grease. 1984. brown wrapping paper (GDR paper) with a large grease spot, circled in pencil and with handwritten text. Signed and dated. 67 x 45 cm. Mounted in dots on support and framed under glass (unopened). - Work with several folds and somewhat creased, the stamps somewhat faded due to light. Overall in very good condition. Unique. - With enclosed certificate from Galerie Edition Staeck dated 23.12.2020. - Mail art developed in particular from the 1970s in the GDR as an alternative form of communication and an important medium with which artists created an independent network away from the state-controlled cultural scene. Joseph Beuys not only supported this movement ideally through his idea of a social sculpture, but was also an active participant in the ramified network. - In the work "Mit ein bisschen Fett geht alles besser", Beuys combined fat, a central material for him that symbolised change, energy and transformation and embodied in his work the combination of warmth, life and spiritual movement as a contrast to rigid form, with GDR paper. The combination of the two materials marked a subtle but decisive criticism of ideological rigidity and authoritarian cultural policy - an attitude that ultimately culminated in the GDR's entry ban on Beuys in the 1980s. Brown wrapping paper (GDR paper) with a large grease stain, circled in pencil and with handwritten text. Signed and dated. Spot-mounted to backing and framed under glass (unopened). 4000