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Joseph Beuys (German, 1921-1986)
La rivoluzione siamo Noi [We Are the Revolution], 1972
Silkscreen with handwritten text and stamp, 183 x 91 cm, Ed. 43 of 180.

The artwork La rivoluzione siamo Noi [We Are the Revolution], is a silkscreen of a photograph taken by Giancarlo Pancaldi which was first used on a poster for Beuys’s exhibition at Modern Art Agency in Naples in 1971 – hence the Italian title. The concept of working in multiples was an essential facet of the artist’s work; his goal was to democratize access to his art by making it as available to as many people as possible. Other editions of this work are held in museum collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Broad, Los Angeles, Tate Modern, London, Kunsthalle Hamburg, and Penakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany. The artist has signed, titled, and editioned the work by hand in the lower right corner. Though the title includes the plural “we,” Beuys has firmly identified himself as the face of the revolution.