Artist is spent for blank canvases after being provided ₤60,000 for them

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    Artist is paid for blank canvases after being given £60,000 for them

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    A lady stands in front of an empty frame hung up at the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, Denmark (Picture: AFP)

    When a Danish museum lent a concerned artist ₤60,000 to recreate old art work of his utilizing the banknotes, nobody believed he would simply pocket the cash.

    Jens Haaning was commissioned by the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg for an exhibit called ‘Work it Out’.

    He was asked to recreate 2 works utilizing Danish kroner and Euros to represent the yearly income in Denmark and Austria.

    But when gallery personnel unloaded the pieces, they were shocked to discover 2 empty glass frames with the cash no place to be seen.

    Even more, the bundle consisted of a note stating that Haaning had actually swiped the cash in order to produce a brand-new conceptual art piece called‘Take the Money and Run’

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    In an e-mail to the museum, which is now shown beside the empty frames, he stated: ‘I have actually selected to make a brand-new work for the exhibit, rather of revealing the 2 14- and 11- year-old works respectively.

    ‘The work is based on/responds to both your exhibition concept and the works that we had originally planned to show.’

    Kunsten desires Haaning to return the money– however he has actually decreased.

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    Text from the e-mail is up beside the blank canvas (Picture: AFP)

    epa09492887 An empty picture frame, an artwork titled 'Take the Money and Run' by Danish artist Jens Haaning, in on display at the museum Kunsten in Aalborg, Sweden, 28 September 2021. The frame should have been filled with around 550.000 Danish kroner in cash, which is supposed to match the average annual salary in respectively Austria and Denmark. Yet, when the art pieces arrived at the museum in Aalborg last week and staff members began unpacking the frames, there was no money in sight, only the empty frames and the tape, which was supposed to hold the money in place. Danish artist Jens Haaning is currently in possession of the cash that should have been inside the frames. The museum loaned him the money, which he is contractually bound to return to the museum, when the exhibition closes on 14 January 2022. EPA/Henning Bagger DENMARK OUT

    Kunsten Museum desires the cash back (Picture: EPA)

    Lasse Andersson, the museum’s director, states he is as puzzled as everybody else about what occurred with the commission.

    The museum is now thinking about whether to report him to the cops if he has actually not returned it by the time the exhibit ends in January.

    In an interview with a Danish radio, Haaning validated he had no objective of adhering to his agreement and included that recreating his old works would have left him ‘out of pocket’.

    He stated: ‘The work is that I have actually taken their cash. It is not theft. It is breach of agreement, and breach of agreement belongs to the work.

    ‘ I motivate other individuals who have working conditions as unpleasant as my own to do the very same.

    ‘If they are sitting in some s****y job and not getting paid, and are actually being asked to pay money to go to work, then grab what you can and beat it.’

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