MoMA exhibited the work never existed artist
ARTinvestment.RU   17 мая 2016

The artist of the pop-арт Verne Blosum, which was recognized in 1960-х never existed

Even such a famous Museum, like new-йоркский MOMA (Museum of Modern Art), it is possible to cheat, when it comes to what is considered art and what is not. The Museum, dedicated to the booming art-сцене 1960-х years, among the works presented in the hall in 1962, is "Time expired" ("Time's up") of a certain American representative of pop-арта True of Blosum (Vern Blosum). And now it turned out that artist with this name never existed. It was a hoax of a certain abstract expressionist, who wanted to laugh at pointless and overrated (in his eyes) pop-артом.

And MOMA took the bait, accepting the work "is True of Blooma" at face value and bought a "Time expired" in his collection in 1963. The Museum acquired this work, not where-нибудь, and at the famous Leo Castelli gallery. According to the man behind the figure of the True Blosum, proved it all the emptiness of pop-арт. Because he was doing these works as a parody and a joke. However, the recognition that they subsequently received, says more about the fact that talent and flair, mysterious artist had some, and they made him a good representative of pop-арта. Or even, rather, of conceptual art.

in Fact, the MOMA in the late 1960-х — early 1970-х became suspicious and even tried to find out the biography of the artist, to prove the fact of its existence. Having failed and convinced that they played, the Museum staff hid the True work of Blosum in the vaults for many years. Although the Museum's curator, Alfred Barr thus wrote Leo Castelli: "Fake it or not —, I like this picture". After decades of neglect "Time expired" again hangs in the MOMA exhibition.

by the Way, several years ago, a new-йоркской gallery even hosted an exhibition of works of True Blooma. Works gave their author,-прежнему hiding your real name. According to gallery Director, organized the exhibition, he spoke on the phone with this person. He has a PhD and profound knowledge in the philosophy of Kant. As well as the official career of abstract expressionist: works under his real name he also exposes.

the True Identity of Blosum was invented by the author to artistic expression, not for profit (here it is time to remember a fictional Ilya Kabakov, artists Charles Rosenthal and Igor Spivak from the project "Alternative history of art"). You can not say about the hoax called "Karl Waldmann", recently revealed in Germany. Alleged work of a little-known Dadaist Carl Waldman (mainly Dadaist collages) packs were sold at a German auction, but then it turned out that over the years the auction house was selling fakes.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artnet.com, artinamericamagazine.com, greg.org, artinvestment.ru