Particolare dell’installazione: in mostra, oggetti prestati dagli abitanti del palazzo dove ha sede la galleria.
“An exhibition realised in cooperation with the inhabitants of Viale Bligny,42, where the gallery is located. I asked the tenants to lend an object to the gallery, and fill a loan form that was exhibited next to it. In this way I mimicked the museum protocol for loans. I involved and connected to the gallery a context usually excluded , creating a diversion from the usual relationship between artist, gallery, collector and critic. The value of each piece was not prefixed, but determined by the relation; like in the contemporary art, the value and the meaning of an artwork are the result of a collective interaction. The title “Der Messingkauf” has been found in Bertolt Brecht’s writings on theatre and relates to the inappropriateness of measuring everything on monetary terms.”