Art without the artist
Size
33 x 36.61 in
Year
Reference
06516020
First piece created on 2016 then, being a series of artwork, we produce new pieces with each sale.
The work is produced in series and numbered progressively to infinity: anyone can buy it, but at the same time its collector is also unique, because each part of the carbon is imperceptibly different. ARTƎCONOMY®' finds expression in the movement of the selling price: starting with a price of CHF 500 for 'number 1', the value increases steadily (CHF 100) with each work sold. 'Number 2' is worth 600 CHF, 'number 3' 700 CHF, and so on. The constant increase in price is not related to the increase in demand, but represents the emotion each collector feels at the moment of purchase.
technique: fiber carbon recycled ( proprietary industrial process), embedded in 2 sheets of glass and framed with a black wooden frame.
Lugano, Switzerland
The idea comes from Five Gallery, and it was presented for the first time on 25 November 2016, as a provocative response to the excessive emphasis on finance and economy in the contemporary art world.
ARTƎCONOMY® is a project developed by Five Gallery in Lugano. Art without the artist is the mantra, a provocation that, in an ironic and desecrating way, wants to overcome the very concept of the artist.
It is a movement of denunciation that fuses art and economy, making the latter an essential element of the work and transforming the role of the artist into superfluous. The idea was born as a provocative response to the excessive weight that finance and economics have achieved in the art world. By eliminating the figure of the artist and using terms proper to the financial world, the imbalance between art and economics in favour of the latter becomes evident. "ARTƎCONOMY®" proposes a series of works that are all the same and yet different, whose sales mechanism is an integral part of the work itself.
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Address
Lugano, Via Canova 7
Five Gallery has been operating in the Contemporary Art scene since 2013. It is located in an elegant historic apartment in the historical center of Lugano. Five Gallery wants to reassert the principle of Contemporary Art Collection through important exhibition and collections dedicated to the Masters of the 70’s and 80’s and to the innovative internati...