![]() ![]() "It wasn't what we had agreed on in the contract, but we got new and interesting art" from Haaning, Andersson said. The museum says it's talking with him about that deadline it also acknowledges that Haaning did produce a provocative piece of work. The artist now faces a deadline to give the museum its money back on Jan. Haaning signed a contract with the Kunsten, promising to deliver the artwork and to return the $84,000. The museum isn't taking legal action - yet Under the agreement, the artist also receives a fee of 10,000 kroner, plus a "viewing fee" determined by the government. But Andersson says the museum's contract provides up to 6,000 euros, or nearly $7,000, for Haaning's work expenses. Haaning says he would have had to pay 25,000 kroner (around $2,900) to re-create his art work - an unfair burden, he told Danish radio. The artist had previously used two canvases, one larger than the other, to illustrate the gap in average annual incomes in Denmark and Austria in concrete terms - or, more accurately, in paper. Haaning took the money as part of an agreement with the Kunsten, which says it loaned Haaning more than half a million kroner so he could frame the cash in a reprise of an earlier artwork. Artist's unexpected delivery provoked laughter and questions The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg isn't satisfied with that explanation, but that hasn't stopped it from displaying the two canvases as part of its exhibition called Work It Out, which explores people's relationship with work. "The work is that I have taken their money," Haaning stated. "It is a breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work," he said, according to Danish public broadcaster DR. The artist, Jens Haaning, says the blank canvases make up a new work of art - titled "Take the Money and Run" - that he calls a commentary on poor wages. In return, it received two empty canvases. And it was - but not in the way a Danish museum expected when it gave an artist the equivalent of $84,000. The money was supposed to be used to create modern art. The piece is part of an exhibition called Work It Out, which explores people's relationship with work. Visitors view a blank canvas that is part of "Take the Money and Run," by Jens Haaning, at the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark. ![]()
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