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.
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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