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> So the museum director was happy, curators were interested and they were on display - feels like the money was his? Well, the context is they paid him to rep
by michaelt 3y ago
> So the museum director was happy, curators were interested and they were on display - feels like the money was his?
Well, the context is they paid him to reproduce previous works, such as "An Average Danish Year Income, 2010" [1] which was literally comprised of 278500 Danish Kroner, mounted and framed.
If he's contracted to produce something, and decides to produce something different instead, it seems pretty clear the money wasn't his.
Interestingly, he's not the first artist to frame cash and put it in an art gallery - for example K Foundation's money-as-art works, "Money: A Major Body Of Cash" [2]
[1] https://www.sabsay.com/artists/43-jens-haaning/works/9668-jens-haaning-an-average-danish-year-income-2010/ https://www.sabsay.com/artists/43-jens-haaning/works/9668-je...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation#Money:_A_Major_Body_of_Cash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation#Money:_A_Major_Bo...
- FridayNightTV 3y ago> K Foundation's money-as-art works, "Money: A Major Body Of Cash" You cannot mention this without also mentioning "K Foundation Burn a Million Quid". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu... And yes, they really did do it. (This was the same blokes who, at the top of the UK charts, as an artistic statement deleted their entire music back catalogue, meaning you could no longer buy their music. In 1992, that really did mean no more sales of their music and no more profit for them.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF
- wave_function 3y agoI love how Wikipedia lists the budget of the film as one million pounds.