Joseph Beuys
(c)SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
Mirror Piece, 1975
Object
, 19.5 x Ø 10.5 cm, 23 x Ø 14.7 cm
glass bottle, cardboard box
The glass apothecary flask in Mirror Piece has been coated in layers of silver, copper and brown paint, with only a small area left unpainted. This lets the viewers look inside and see an iodine crystal. The flask is housed in a cylindrical cardboard box, on which a diagram is printed. All elements combine to comment on the flask’s significance as a metaphor (mirror) of the human mind.
