From Prints to Sculptures
From Money Art to Time Art

With more and more prints, the date is coming to the fore in artistic design.

By either refering to special days such as February 29 or combining several HoCs according to criterion like a weekend, a month, a year or all Mondays or Tuesdays, …, of a year, it is possible to create sculptures that each take on a theme from the world of art or finance.

The price remains unique too, the price is yours – literally!

29. February

The rarest sculpture

The Rare Sculpture combines a framed print created on a 29th of February of a leap year and one REE (Rare Earth Elements),

Limited Multiples:
17 sculptures

The 17 Rare Earthes are becoming more and more important in our modern society and especially in its IT economy, but also more and more problematic, be it the „dirty“ extraction, be it the geo-strategic allocation of the raw material sources or be it their recycling.

The deal is about rarity and greed

Commodity

The purest sculpture

Commody, between 28 and 31 stapled prints (representing a month),
fixed onto a transportable euro-palette.

Limited Multiples

Year 1995/96: 12 sculptures
Year 1997/98: 12 sculptures

One can reasonably wonder after decades of dramatically rising art prices
whether art has not finally become an asset class, as some have hoped and
many others feared.

Our answer to the commodification of art is – creating a commodity.

The deal ist about appropriation. But who is appropriating whom, the market the art or art the market?

Imprisoned

The most dramatic sculpture

70x96x15cm
All days like the Monday or Tuesday … or Sunday of 2014/18.
Each sculptuter comes with 52 boxes for each share

Limited Multiples,
Year 2014: 7 sculptures
Year 2018: 7 sculptures

Imprisoned art: A worrying development is that more and more art works are not public, they are not even private, they are imprisoned in climate-controlled warehouse with high-tech security.

Imprisoned artists: Likewise, more and more artists are being locked up for their art and with the help of the Artivive app you can see an artist “locked up” in the print block.

Therefore, as an artistic statement to imprisoned art and artists, we imprisoned our own art by conglutinating 52 prints to one massive block.

Fractional Ownership

Several (unrelated) buyers share in and mitigate a high-value tangible artwork and participate in future sales either of the artwork itself or sales by shares to multiple co-investors. Finaly one can make a complex financial contract on a future artwork sale (so-called derivatives)

Subprime

The most capitalistic sculpture

This an one of a kind outdoor installation consist of all 365 prints of the year 1994, whereby the drawings represent a family in their house, the small print the mortgage lor each house.

This sculpture is reflecting the bursting of the real estate bubble in the USA, which is considered to have triggered the financial crisis in 2008.

Many US citizens and families with a low income had received a loan to buy a house.In extreme cases, these home builders did not even have a job or any other property to secure the loan. These were the so-called ninja loans: no income, no job, no asset.

These loans/mortages were bundeled and sold as CMOs (Collateralized Mortgage Obligations) then.

As a real estate developer, you can build a HoC-village of 365 houses for families and take over the mortgages as security and sell them bundled on the secondary market or …

The deal is about value and people