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28/5/2009

Artworks That Ideas Can Buy

Wilkinson Gallery, London

Artworks (for sale in exchange for visitors ideas) by Maria Thereza Alves, Dara Birnbaum, Tania Bruguera, Adam Chodzko, Jeremy Deller, Jimmie Durham, Lara Favaretto, Joan Jonas, Lia Perjovski and Dan Perjovski

Wilkinson Gallery is pleased to present a project Space exhibition by Cesare Pietroiusti. For Wilkinson Pietroiusti will exhibit ten artworks by international artists of different generations and poetics, using different media from drawing to video to photography to performative practices. The artworks exhibited in the show are for sale, but the currency that can ‘buy’ them is not money, but ideas – visitors’ ideas. Visitors are invited to leave comments, opinions, proposals, suggestion’s etc. that relate to any of the artworks in the show. Similarly to a silent auction, these ideas will be left in sealed envelopes in the space.

Visitors are also invited to email their ideas to ideascanbuy@wilkinsongallery.com.

At the end of the show all the envelopes will be opened and the visitors’ ideas made public; anonymity can be assured if requested. The artists (i.e.the authors of the artworks in the show) including Joan Jonas, Dara Birnbaum, Lara Favaretto and Jeremy Deller, will then decide if any of the visitors’ proposed ideas equate to the value of their exhibited artwork, and if so, the visitor/author of the idea will receive the artwork in exchange for their idea, without paying any money.

Image: Methods for an irreversible transformation of money, Trafo Gallery, Budapest 2003

Opening: Friday 29 May 6 to 8 pm

Wilkinson Gallery
50 to 58 Vyner Street, London E2 9DQ
Wednesday > Saturday 11am - 6pm, Sunday 12am - 6pm

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