Edition in support of the Volkspalast, Berlin / 2004 In 2004, I was asked to do an edition of artworks for the funding of projects in Volkspalast in Berlin. All of the artworks were to be called "Volkspalast-shares",
which I thought was wrong, since the buyer wouldn't actually hold a
share in anything. I therefore decided to make "money". The "money" comes
in the form of small, medium and large coins (copper, silver and gold;
I made them out of copper, aluminum, and genuine 24-carat gold leaf
on aluminum) [1]. The "coins" show the structure above the
entrance of the Volkspalast, which used to hold the insignia of the
GDR. In the middle of each "coin" I painted a pointillist "1" in
different colors.
[1] I was very interested in metals, because I was trying to find the most time-resistant material to paint on for my Mummies, and I had also started to think about Skarbek, mining, and precious metals.
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