Why only black and white — and no colours?
Good question to start with.
For a painter, colour is the means — the tool through which form, mood, and meaning emerge. Red is not just red. It is warmth, danger, passion, one specific red among ten thousand possible reds.
My means are different. The story is the same every day. But the day is not. The price is not. The number is not.
January 1, 2000 — the millennium — is not the same colour as September 11, 2001. April 19, 1995 is not the same colour as the day your child was born. Each day carries its own weight, its own charge, its own place in history — last but not least —, your meaning.
In that sense, the system is anything but monochrome. The colours are not in the ink. They are in time.
What exactly is a HoC-print?
Three things make a HoC-print: a date, a number, a price. The drawing is the same on every one. The three are not.
The drawing is a 42-panel comic — the History of Creation. From the Big Boing to the present day. Eugen Kment drew it. The same 42 panels appear on every print, in the same arrangement.
The print is on hemp paper. 70 × 100 cm. Both artists sign the front — Eugen Kment, Christopher Temt — and the print number sits between them. Everything that identifies the work is on the work itself. No label. No certificate beside it. The work carries its own identity.
One print per day. Since 01.01.1993. Over 12,000 prints exist today.
How would you describe Money Art in one sentence?
Money Art is an artwork in which time determines the date, number, and price of every print through a fixed rule.
Same drawing every day — an original or a reproduction?
You're right to ask. If the artwork were the drawing, it wouldn't be original — a repeated image cannot be original by definition. In Money Art, the drawing is not the artwork. It is the carrier of the artwork. The artwork is the day — and the number and price the rule writes onto it. A date that exists exactly once. Both. The drawing is the reproduction; the day is the original.
Why hemp paper?
Because it lasts. Early Qurans, the Gutenberg Bible — both on hemp paper, both still legible today. Modern wood- pulp paper yellows and crumbles within decades. Hemp paper lasts 500 to 1,000 years. A print created today will still be here five centuries from now. You can begin a tradition. That is what sustainable means.
Where to hang my HoC-Print?
We don't mind. Though the bathroom might be one of the best places to hang a HoC-Print. There you and your guests have time to read — and you are at least half nude, too.