Il critico come artista

Technical Sheet

Title

Year

2016

Dim

80 x 40 x 40

Technique

pencil on schoolchair and book, a stack of 60 or 65 2-euro coins

Exhib.

Premio Fondazione VAF VII, MACRO Testaccio, Rome; Stadtgalerie, Kiel; Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, 2016 Money Money Money, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, 2021 Symphonie Eines Jahrhunderts, Kunsthalle Osnabruck, Osnabruck (GER), 2018

Notes

Originally produced for the 7th VAF Award at MACRO in Rome, this work comes in two different versions.
In the first, the red booklet placed on the chair is Ernesto Che Guevara's “Socialism and Man in Cuba,” while the column of 2-euro coins perfectly completes the missing leg of the chair.
Following a series of thefts, the work took on a new and definitive form in Osnabruck during the artist's solo exhibition in February 2018: here, the red booklet was replaced with the yellow volume “Weh dem, der lügt!” by Franz Grillparzer - a warning against falsehood and lies - and the 2-euro coins were reduced, leaving two centimeters between the pile of coins and the severed leg of the chair.

Technical Sheet

Il critico come artista, original version. Installation view at MACRO, Rome, 2016

Il critico come artista, ultimate version. Installation view at Galleria Michela Rizzo, 2021 Venice, 2021

Il critico come artista, ultimate version, detail