Jens Haaning was meant to embed the 500,000 Danish Kroner in banknotes he received from the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg into the framed fabric. He pocketed it.
A Danish artist has been ordered to pay just under £57,000 to a museum after giving them two blank canvasses for a piece he calledwas meant to embed the 500,000 Danish Kroner in banknotes he received from the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg into the framed fabric.“The work is that I have taken their money,” he told local media.
Haaning, 58, refused, which led to a long legal battle over the blank frames, which the museum exhibited. After his defeat, Haaning, whose work focuses on power and inequality, told the dr.dk website he would not be appealing the judgement. The conceptual artist was commissioned to recreate two earlier works that used banknotes fixed to canvas to show average incomes.Museum director Lasse Andersson said he had laughed out loud when he saw the artworks in 2021.
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