Sometimes much less is extra… But not normally once you’re minimize a examine to show in a prestigious job!
In 2021, Danish artist Jens Haaning (that’s not him above btw, that’s Diego Luna) was commissioned to create a brand new piece for Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, and that he did! Well, form of…
The museum placed on an exhibition that was supposed to painting labor circumstances and wage in Denmark and Austria. The museum thought Jens can be the proper man for the job, as he’d beforehand featured a financial institution notice representing common salaries in one in all his artworks. It appears like they stunning a lot needed him to copy that for them. For the gig, they supplied him with the financial institution notes — and paid him the equal of about $84,000 to do the job… However, he had his personal concept for the challenge.
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Instead of delivering what they’d in thoughts, Jens submitted two fully BLANK canvases — like, not a DROP of paint or something to be seen — and easily titled them:
“Take the Money and Run”
We’re sorry, WHAT?? As a conceptual piece, it’s truly fairly humorous. It’s actually a meta piece a few employee (aka HIM) stealing cash from an employer!
At the time, Jens defined his choice to Danish broadcaster DR:
“The artwork is that I have taken the money. I encourage others who have just as miserable working conditions as I to do the same. If they are being asked to give money to go to work, then take the money and run.”
Ha! We guess when the museum employed him, they weren’t essentially pondering of themselves as a part of the labor trade that will be free recreation to criticize! LOLz!
We’ve gotta give him credit score — the thought was undoubtedly there. F**ok the person, proper??
However, the enjoyable shortly got here to a screeching halt, as KMOMA filed authorized petitions to get Jens to repay the lump sum of money — and a choice has lastly been made two years after the kerfuffle. On Monday, a Copenhagen court docket ordered Jens to return ALL of the cash — minus the artist’s price and value of mounting the work (and of paint, we guess, since that value was zero) — so about $70,600, plus one other $11,000 in authorized charges. Jens advised DR the identical day:
“I am shocked, but at the same time it is exactly what I have imagined.”
Museum director Lasse Andersson advised BBC that on the time of the bamboozlement, he truthfully simply couldn’t assist however snigger:
“He stirred up my curatorial staff and he also stirred me up a bit, but I also had a laugh because it was really humoristic.”
The director in the end DID show the “art” within the exhibit — however says he needed to transfer ahead with legalities, because it put him in an “unmanageable situation.”
Ha! At least they nonetheless obtained some use out of the challenge, proper?! Though tbh if he displayed it and folks got here to see it, you’d suppose a minimum of a few of that cash ought to have stayed in Haaning’s pocket.
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