Author: Yingbao
It is very expensive to engage in art, but the real degree of burning money must be this "loser masterpiece" "Too much money?" 》。
From a distance, the artwork is a transparent glass table with a cluster of flames on the table; when you get closer, you'll find that the glass table is filled with "paper money"—it is the flame that burns it, and part of it has turned into charred ashes.
We don't have to be too afraid, these "paper money" are hand-drawn, and there is a layer of glass between the flame and the "paper money".
Author of "Too Much Money? Alejandro Monge, a Spanish artist, said that it was not to convey the importance of money, but to provoke people to think, "Is money really important?" ”——
The more bound I am to it, the less happy life becomes, "I'm going to burn away this idea of money supremacy and let everyone see that there are other good things in life."
Perhaps money can more effectively vent emotions, and in recent years, "money-burning art" has emerged in an endless stream.
American artist Mark Wagne loves to toss $1 bills.
Like a window flower, he cut the banknotes into regular figures, or cut off the figures above and glue them into a huge painting.
The area of a banknote is quite small, so Mark's creations are consumed in "bundles", and the remaining edges and corners can only be thrown away.
Seeing this, some people must question: no matter how big the painting is, it is only the thickness of a piece of paper, and the layer of banknotes can be expensive?
It seems that we have to move out of the "banknote sculpture" of American artist Scott Campbell.
Scott was originally a tattooist, and after making enough money, he began to "think wildly": Can banknotes also become a medium for "tattoos"?
So he stacked 11,000 $1 bills into 60-centimeter-high cubes and carved them into the shape of a skull with the help of laser technology used to wash tattoos.
After becoming famous, Scott continued to work hard, launching "Bear Sculpture", "Skull Sculpture Divided into Three", "Butterfly Carving" and other works.
His reason for "burning money" is similar to Alejandro's original intention: "If you don't spend your money on freedom, you are wasting money!" ”
Skull Sculpture Divided into Three
The work of American artist Robert Wechsler has a heavier sense of weight because it is made of American coins.
When creating the installation Beggar, Robert connected 27,000 1-cent coins into cubes of varying sizes.
The Beggar
Later, in the same way, he created a coin cylinder with a height of 2.15 meters and a diameter of 0.27 meters, and named it "Female Statue Column".
The difference between "Beggar" and "Female Statue Column" is mainly in the visual effects -
The coin used in the former is covered with scratches and filth, as if reflecting the hardships of life; the coin used in the latter is new and shimmering with rose gold, like a girl full of expectations for the future.
Statuette
As the engraving technique became more sophisticated, Robert successively launched the American coin sculptures of the "Hydrangea Ball Series" and the "Flower Series". According to this crazy momentum, even if in the future he threatens to pile up a house with coins, I can believe it, and I believe that the structure of the house will be very stable.
When asked why he used coins to create, Robert's answer was also quite interesting: "The 1 cent coin in circulation in the world, up to 50 billion, such a huge material library, why don't I use it?" What's more, coins and art are both cultural symbols. ”
It turned out that the artist did not mean Versailles. In their eyes, money is really not money...
Perhaps, when I can personally understand this state of mind of "seeing money as dung", I can also touch the essence of life.
After seeing the above artworks, everyone is happy to forget it, don't imitate, it is not a problem of losers, but -
Article 43 of the Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of renminbi stipulates that those who intentionally damage the renminbi shall be given a warning by the public security organs and fined not more than 10,000 yuan. "Intentional damage" includes: cutting, burning, and scribbling renminbi; making renminbi into handicrafts; and smelting coins.
Let's keep the money and buy ourselves more delicious food!