Last week the opening of the exhibition Anonyme Zeichner Nr 10 (Anonymous drawings Nº10) took place at Kunstraum / Bethanien (Berlin). A drawing of mine was hanging on one of the walls within 700 works from international artists, all anonymously presented until you buy the piece.
"A selection of about 700 drawings by international artists will be presented anonymously.
The general exhibition preparation starts with an international call to participate on the Internet. No demands are being made; age, biography or heritage of the originator do not play any role for the selection.
The artist's anonymity can be lifted by means of purchasing a drawing for the symbolic unit salesprice of 150 EUR. The buyer can take his drawing right off the wall and s/he is then told the name of its author. The empty space the drawing leaves behind will be marked with the artist‘s full name.
The given unit salesprice should not be seen as a real market price, but as a placeholder for any conceivable amount of money. Because the works are from both established artists and laymen, it is expected from the viewer to draw his own line between art and not-art. Common, art specific mechanisms like the importance of an artists` ego, price formation or prepared qualities which can be refered to a specific art context, should be reversed in this exhibition in an experimental way: the artists engage themselves to put their own person into the background for the benefit of the actual product, their artistic work."
The exhibition is still open till the 17th of january.
For more information: http://www.bluetenweiss-berlin.de/dt/anonymous.html
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