Artistic Bokeh, Société Réaliste & Georgios Papadopoulos: Too much money...

Artistic Bokeh, Société Réaliste & Georgios Papadopoulos:
Too much money…

Opening: 27.2.2014 19:00
MuseumsQuartier / quartier21
Artistic Bokeh Showroom.
Exhibition running from 28.02 - 31.05.2014

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Opening of the exhibition with screening:
Art Accounts Deutsche Bank (2013) by Carsten Lisecki

The installation Too much money… addresses the ambivalent relationship between art and the market, pointing to the the problematics of commodification, alienation and co-optation of creativity. The work by Société Réaliste, which was produced espescially for the installation, A Proposal for a New Alphabetical Order Based on the Experanto Writing System and Pegged on the Dollar Rates (Digital print, 2014) is an excellent comment on the ability of the market to create an order of meaning, hinting also at the similarities between market and money. The juxtaposition of this work with its object - with 4107 one-dollar-bills - is suggestive as it is subtle. The relationship between the artwork and the bills is multidirectional. Art creates money, both by representing it, but also by creating value through the actual value of the artwork, but also through the surplus value of art for other fields of economic activity. Conversely, money creates art by providing the very means of artistic production, but also by valorizing the artwork, effectively acknowledging it as art. Money is of critical importance both for the arts and for society at large, the only problem being that there is simultaneously not enough and too much money.

Artistic Bokeh is an initiative working with experimental documentation and conceptual art practice. The Artistic Bokeh Showroom in MuseumsQuartier Vienna acts as connecting space to interlink the network of artists, researchers and theorists. Artistic Bokeh documents the works of the project "Artistic Technology Research" of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

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