One of my favorite artists is Joseph Beuys. He was born in Germany in 1921 .

In 1940 he became part of the Air force of the Nazi Army, some time later he had an accident, his plane fell in Crimea and he was rescued by native tartaros. 

Beuys conceived one of the most compelling, and still provocative, esthetic programs of the postwar period, one that continues to cause reververation. His sculpture, performance, lectures and political activism were all part of a grand, enormous goaul: the transformation of western culture into a more peaceful, democratic and creative system.

Along the way he developed a range of wildly inventive art forms and served as a model for a whole generation of young artist.

I'm interested in this artist because is one of the first in practice the performance. It's a recurrent area of interest in my work. I use his life's work as a theoretical reference every time.