Artist is paid for blank canvases after being given £60,000 to create work
Artist is paid for blank canvases after being given £60,000 to create work
A woman stands in front of an empty frame hung up at the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, Denmark (Picture: AFP)
When a Danish museum loaned a regarded artist £60,000 to recreate old artworks of his using the banknotes, no one thought he would just pocket the money.
Jens Haaning was commissioned by the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg for an exhibition named ‘Work it Out’.
He was asked to reproduce two works…