Danish artist has used empty frames as an artwork

 A Danish artist who turned into given a pile of coins through a museum in northern Denmark to create a piece for its exhibition on labor conditions years ago submitted two empty canvases — titled “Take the money and Run.” The showcase triggered a stir.

A Danish court docket ruled final week that Jens Haaning has to repay 492,549 kroner ($69,894 ) to Kunsten Museum in Aalborg for having violated his settlement. His legal professional, Peter Schønning, said Wednesday that the cutting-edge artist is attractive the ruling and declined further comment.

The museum had commissioned Haaning in 2021 to recreate of his in advance portions proposing bank notes connected to canvases representing the common annual wage in Denmark and Austria.

instead, he submitted empty canvases for the exhibition, entitled “work It Out,” stated the paintings represented his current paintings scenario and stored the cash.

along with giving him the money in euro and kroner banknotes for the artwork pieces, the museum also paid him 25,000 kroner ($three,900) for his labor in growing the artwork.

In its Sept. 18 ruling, the District court docket of Copenhagen also decided that Haaning can hold forty,000 kroner ($five,676) from the original quantity given to him by means of the museum, which need to represent an artist’s price because the exhibition, held from Sept. 24, 2021 to Jan. sixteen, 2022, went in advance with the empty frames.

The court said that the contract between the museum and Haaning had said that the coins — the banknotes given to Haaning — might be to be had in the course of the brief show of the works, and that it turned into to be returned afterward.

when Haaning refused to go back the cash after the exhibition ended, the museum took criminal action.

Haaning has denied having committed against the law and insists he did produce a piece of artwork.