Free artwork is made of money
Published on: 04-Oct-2007
Famous contemporary artists, Jake and Dinos Chapman, will be making artwork out of the money of guests at the Frieze art fair this month.At their gallery stand at Regent's Park, called White Cube, the artists are offering to make free works of art from the paper currency handed to them by punters - by scrawling onto the banknotes, the Guardian reports.
Commenting on the unique opportunity for their guests to make money from money, Dinos Chapman said: "I prefer drawing on other people's work. The scene is set, and you have to respond. It's not a wheeze, it's a very serious project. It's free art, and people don't give away art very often."
And obviously expecting a large crowd he continued: "Orderly queues have a propensity to turn into baying hordes."
He added: "Most of the things we do skirt dangerously close to fairground attractions. It's not an unwelcome comparison. We're happy to drag artists off their pedestals."
At last year's fair the duo painted portraits of the guests for £4,000 per artwork.
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