Details on the "Hugo Boss Prize laureate Hans-Peter Feldmann

from May 20 to November 2 in New York's Guggenheim Museum will open an exhibition last year's award winner Hugo Boss, the German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (Hans-Peter Feldmann). As reported by The New York Times, the artist invented a trade off he received as a prize to 100,000 dollars in one-dollar bills and hang them in a room.

«I am 70 years old, I began to study art back in 1950 - says Feldman. - Then no money in the world of art was not. Money and art - it's all been disparate concepts. So, for me 100 thousand dollars - a very impressive amount. Unbelievable, frankly. And I want to show how it's a lot ».

According to the artist, he was not irony about the award or not joking over the museum. "They're good fellows, that have agreed to that. [Show] goes beyond the conventional. " Guggenheim curators, however, undertaking not scared. "We do not just embody the most audacious ideas of the artists," - said the deputy director and chief curator Nancy Spector (Nancy Spector).

The museum claimed that the work on installing the required 13 days. Feldman notes vertically disposed pin, because it would require just one button. He also important that all denominations were not new: in such "a history", they are taken straight from real life. If the installation will consist of new notes, then, as the artist, visitors might think that the show says about capitalism and power.

Museum going to put in the hall for more safety and closely monitor visitors with the help of surveillance cameras - that no one had any temptation to make money out "souvenir". "In the next room hang pictures over 10 million, and nobody is not trying to steal, - says Feldman. - If someone takes one dollar, that's okay. But I'm sure nobody will make ».

Expose 100 thousand dollars somewhere else is not going to Feldman. After the exhibition he will take the money yourself.

artist admits that his project experienced the impact of a pop-art 1960's and 1970's. In this regard we can recall the picture of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) with the image of 200 dollar bills (which, incidentally, in 2009, has brought at auction 43.7 million dollars).

At the time of delivery he Prize Hugo Boss Feldman was the oldest of them all, who ever receives it. The award is given for "significant artistic achievement." Prize was established in 1996, is awarded every two years, her.

Among the most famous of his works - "100 years", the installation of 101 portraits of people aged from 8 months to 100 years ( Museum of Modern Art MoMA PS 1, 2004-2005), and an exhibition of the front pages of newspapers that came Sept. 12, 2001 (International Center of Photography, New York, 2008).

The material was prepared Yulia Maximova, AI

Sources : nytimes.com , artinvestment.ru