Museum Gives Artist $84,000 To Create Artwork, But Instead He Delivered Blank Canvases Titled ‘Take The Money And Run’
A Danish artist was provided $84,000 by a museum to create an art of work. Once he delivered the piece he was supposed to make, Jens Haaning, gave the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art two blank canvases and titled them “Take the Money and Run.” According to Thehill.
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Haaning spoke out wanting the world to know that he is not a theif, by saying “It is a breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work,” he said, according to Danish public broadcaster DR. “The work is that I have taken their money,” Haaning stated.
The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg isn’t excited about the work he turned in but that hasn’t stopped them from displaying the two canvases as part of its exhibition called Work It Out, which focuses on people’s relationship with work.
“I actually laughed as I saw it,” Kunsten CEO Lasse Andersson shared in an email to NPR, adding that the museum already suspected the situation wouldn’t go as planned when Haaning expressed to them he had created a new piece of art, with the title “Take the Money and Run.”
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“Everyone would like to have more money and, in our society, work industries are valued differently,” Haaning said in a statement. “The artwork is essentially about the working conditions of artists. It is a statement saying that we also have the responsibility of questioning the structures that we are part of. And if these structures are completely unreasonable, we must break with them. It can be your marriage, your work – it can be any type of societal structure”.
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