The Cross of Beuys

Popularly known as Beuys cross, the Manresa Hbf Cross is a monument erected in 1995 in memory of Joseph Beuys’ stay in the city while paying tribute to Saint Ignatius of Loyola. After visiting the Cave, Beuys presented the exhibition Fluxus Manresa in 1966 in Düsseldorf, which was inspired by Ignatian spirituality. In 1994, two Danish disciples of the artist (the sculptor Björn Norgäard and the composer Henning Christiansen) created the event Manresa Hauptbahnhof and Norgaard sculpted this cross, which was installed a few months later near the Old Bridge.

Beuys dissected the Christian cross and gave it a new shape and a new meaning, in order to turn it into an element of union and intersection and not of division and separation. The monument tries to reflect this reworking, through a symbolic mixture of art, science and religion.

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