Colour photographs document Beuys’ exhibition “Wirtschafts-werte” (Economic Values) at the Museum of Modern Art in Ghent, Belgium, in 1980. Food products – salt, rice, flour – from the German Democratic Republic are arranged on metal shelving units amongst paintings by the Flemish masters of the 17th Century already on view in the Museum.
Includes essay and commentary by Jan Hoet/Bart De Baere, Heiner Mueller and Klaus Staeck. Texts in German with the contribution by Jan Hoet and Bart De Baere in English.