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Danish artist delivers empty frames for $84k as low pay protest
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In an unexpected reinterpretation of an earlier work, a Danish artist has left a museum with empty frames, a depleted bank account and red faces all round.
Rather than applauding Jens Haaning’s artistic commentary on modern capitalism, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in northern Denmark has said the artist is in violation of a legal agreement – and in possession of more than $84,000 belonging to the institution.
Haaning, a conceptual artist whose work focuses on power and inequality, was commissioned by the museum to recreate two earlier works which used bank notes to represent average incomes.
A 2007 work, An Average Danish Annual Income, displayed krone notes fixed to canvas in a frame, and a second 2011 work about Austrian incomes used Euro bills.
The Kunsten museum provided 534,000 krone from its reserves for the recreated artworks as well as an artist’s fee of 25,000 krone (about $3,900).
But when staff unpacked the newly delivered works last week, they found two empty frames with the title Take the Money and Run.
Danish artist delivers empty frames for $84k as low pay protest | Art | The Guardian
