Art as Money: Million Banknote
"When Bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When Artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money” - Oscar WIlde
In 2010 I started my own Bank as an artist - the Exchanghibition Bank - in times when the government had no money for the Arts, but billions to bail out banks.
“The Art of Turning Art into Money” was the motto of the Exchanghibition Bank, which seems to be a very fitting one now, more than ten years later, in these NFT times. So turning this banknote into an NFT seems the perfect way to add an extra conceptual layer to the project!
A project exploring the Value(s) of Art and Money. A traveling bank booth where people could exchange their Money for our Banknotes of Zero, Infinite, Million, Love, and more.
What is the Value of Art in a world which seems to see ‘Value’ mostly as synonymous for ‘financial Value’? Aren’t there so many other Values and isn’t often what we value most ‘priceless’?
Will buying this banknote make you a Millionaire?