Hans-Peter Feldmann’s 100K Installation at the Guggenheim Last November German conceptual artist Han
Hans-Peter Feldmann’s 100K Installation at the Guggenheim Last November German conceptual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann was named the winner of the eighth Biennal Hugo Boss Prize, a bi-annual award bestowed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for significant achievement in contemporary art, with an attached honorarium of $100,000. In a unique gesture to the museum Feldmann proposed the idea of creating an installation that would involve tacking 100,000 $1 bills to the walls of a large gallery off the Frank Lloyd Wright ramp. He said in an interview to the NY Times: “I’m 70 years old, and I began making art in the ’50s,” Mr. Feldmann said in a telephone interview from his studio in Düsseldorf. “At that time there was no money in the art world. Money and art didn’t exist. So for me $100,000 is very special. It’s incredible really. And I would like to show the quantity of it.” (via iamtibo) I happen to see this exhibit when I went to the Guggenheim over the weekend. It was a pretty interesting idea and it literally smelled like money in there. Kind of made me wonder if that’s what it smelled like in Scrooge McDuck’s money vault whenever he swam through his millions. -- source link