But if we don’t get it back, we will have to file charges against the artist,” he told The Guardian.
We have to think carefully about how we spend our funds, and we don’t spend more than we can afford.”Īndersson said he is hopeful that Haaning will comply with the contract, which requires him to return the money by Jan. “The money came from modest reserves earmarked for the upkeep of the building. “We are not a wealthy museum,” Lasse Andersson, the director of the Kunsten museum, said, according to The Guardian. When they received the canvases, they were surprised and angered, saying he broke their legal agreement. The museum received an email from Haaning two days before the exhibition saying he had sent new work, according to The Guardian. “If they’re sitting in some shitty job and not getting paid, and are actually being asked to pay money to go to work, then grab what you can and beat it.” “I encourage other people who have working conditions as miserable as mine to do the same,” Haaning told a radio show this week on the P1 channel, part of Danish broadcaster DR, according to the AP. However, he instead delivered two blank canvas - titling the work “Take the Money and Run” - to represent those working in “miserable” conditions. The museum intended to feature his work in their “Work it Out” exhibition on labor conditions and money. The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art commissioned Haaning to recreate two of his earlier pieces that featured bank notes attached to a canvas symbolizing the average annual wage in Denmark and Austria, according to The Associated Press. Danish artist Jens Haaning submitted two empty canvases after being given the equivalent of $84,000 in Danish kroner and euro bank notes, in protest of modern capitalism.
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