{"id":931,"date":"2015-06-11T17:09:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T00:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2015-06-19T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T08:56:41","slug":"galleria-specta-in-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/galleria-specta-in-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Galleri Specta in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Andreas

Crumpled $500 bill featuring Angela Merkel made from felt by artist Andreas Schulenberg<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, my second day in Copenhagen, art work in the gallery Specta<\/a> caught my eye while wandering about the city, so my son and I walked in. The gallerist immediately greeted us and even gave us a tour of the show (as a New Yorker, I was immediately taken aback). The woman explained that the exhibition titled \u201cMoney Makes the World Go Round\u201d (May 9 – June 13, 2015) features four international artists that use money as the subject of their work. All of them with a critical bend toward the power of money and yet featured in a swank art market gallery, of course.<\/p>\n

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Money Makes the World Go Round II by Carlos Aires<\/p><\/div>\n

The central piece upon walking in to the space is \u201cMoney Makes the World Go Round II\u201d, by Spanish artist Carlos Aires who cuts iconographic silhouettes from the currency of the 30 wealthiest countries to create a sphere strewn with what appear to be fruit flies. The sphere is formed by pining the cutout silhouettes and flies to a white canvas surface. <\/p>\n

Also by Carlos Aires are a grid of collages that cut news print figures into the country\u2019s currency.
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\"Carlos

Money Collage by Carlos Aires<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

In his multi-tiled piece titled “Domino” Swedish artist Lars Arrhenius represents the flow of a piece of currency from an ATM withdrawal to any number of exchanges until it is redeposited in to a bank.
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\"Lars

Domino by Lars Arrhenius<\/p><\/div>
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\"Lars

Domino by Lars Arrhenius<\/p><\/div>
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\"Lars

Domino by Lars Arrhenius<\/p><\/div>
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\"Lars

Domino by Lars Arrhenius<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

South African artist Frances Goodman has created bills from woven beads, beads once functioning as currency in various cultures. And in a separate series Goodman creates drawings from fake eyelashes.
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\"Frances

South African currency made from braided beads by Frances Goodman<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"Frances

South African currency made from braided beads by Frances Goodman<\/p><\/div>\n

My favorite and most striking work is by Danish\/German artist Andreas Schulenberg who has created giant dollar bills from felt and in them replaced the portrait of a president with that of the \u201closers\u201d in American society.<\/p>\n

\"Andreas

Paper airplane bill featuring Osama bin Laden made from felt by artist Andreas Schulenberg<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Andreas

Dollar bill featuring poor man made in felt by artist Andreas Schulenberg<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Andreas

$50 dollar bill featuring Sitting Bull made in felt by artist Andreas Schulenberg<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Andreas

$20 – Slavery, $10 – Burglary, $5 – Drug Addiction bills made in felt by artist Andreas Schulenberg<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Andreas

Felt chicken holding $1 bill while laying a money egg made in felt by artist Andreas Schulenberg<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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