Video: Unusual "wallpaper" of dollars: installation by Hans-Peter Feldmann
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Last year, German conceptualist Hans-Peter Feldmann received the Hugo Boss Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Art. But he didn’t just get it and hid it in a jar. 100 thousand dollars - it is necessary to comprehend, or better - even visualize, making unusual "wallpaper" of dollars as the subject of the installation. The artist decided to see for himself the cheerful company of new American friends, and to show others what a lot of money fell on him in his old age.
People of art are interesting because they love to perpetuate every step they take. Not a single thought, not a single precious emotion should be wasted. Everything experienced sooner or later is converted into texts, music, images: "Life and poetry are one." And the scheme "life - art - life" is akin to another - "commodity - money - commodity."
Speaking of money. Money art is more popular today than ever. Here you can find origami, one-dollar collages, and even art furniture made of coins. And now - unusual "wallpaper" from banknotes. Some of the masters show disregard for the universal equivalent, shredding "green", as for a salad. There is, perhaps, a special pleasure in showing money its place: I am your master - what I want, I will do with you. Or brag to other people: I can chop the "cabbage" into cabbage, and the toad will crush you.
How much is 100 thousand dollars? “I don’t know how many meters, and liters, and kilogram are in it,” Winnie the Pooh wrote “our everything, everything, everything”. Liters are useless here, of course - let them measure the profit of banks, but meters are interesting. Unusual "wallpaper" of 100 thousand one-dollar bills hung on the walls of the spacious gallery.
The author of the installation, Hans-Peter Feldmann, commented on his creation: “I am 70 years old, and I started to create in the 50s. At that time, there was no money in the art world. They just couldn't coexist. So for me 100 thousand dollars is a huge amount, and I would like to show what it means to me."
It took almost two weeks to assemble the money installation: each banknote had to be carefully pinned to the wall. In addition, the money had to be hidden and outweighed: initially they were attached horizontally, but then it turned out that such an amount needed too much space. Then they decided to hang the bills vertically, with an overlap, and saved a bunch of buttons.
Anyone who likes to count other people's money will surely like the installation by Hans-Peter Feldmann. The recently opened exhibition will run until November 2.
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