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They Watch the Moon

Currency, Denis Beaubois, 2011

The Currency project is the first work in a series that looks at money as an architecture of possibility. Twenty thousand dollars, consisting of one hundred dollar bills, will be presented as a simple sculptural object to be auctioned through a fine art auction house. The material/money for the work has been sourced from a “New Work Established grant“ from the Visual Arts and Craft section of the Australia council for the Arts. All currency used in the creation of the work will not be altered or modified and will retain its potential function and value as currency. However each hundred dollar bill will have its serial number recorded to validate it as an authentic part of the work, thereby instilling a cultural value on top of the financial value. The tension between the economic value of the material against the cultural value of the art object will be explored through the process of the financial transaction.

AUCTION RESULTS:

HAMMER PRICE: $17,500.00 

im looking through my tumblr of how many years now must be 10 yrs old. and i’m finding contemporary aus stuff i posted. and now its like .. . . . wow I know Denis hahahahah