Harth featured in the book In Art We Trust – Money In Art In Money

“In Art We Trust — Money In Art In Money”
By Daniel Masullo
Page Count: 398, Size: 28,0 x 21,8cm / 11,0″ x 8,6″
Format: Swiss Brochure Binding, 3 different papers
Publication Date: 2016
ISBN: -
Published by -

My work, Currency Work is featured in this new book!

»In Art We Trust« addresses modern artists and pieces of art, which incorporate legal tender as coins, bills, credit cards, likewise representations thereof as artistic material.

This so called money-art ranges from the mere integration of the particular worthless material money as metallic coins, colorful paperstrips or plastic cards into aesthetic processes such as paintings, installations, performances, to scientific discourses on ephemeral questions about debt, economics, and the dynamics of the art market.

In front of the backdrop of superficial sensationalist reports on the correlation between money and art,

this book ought to illuminate the occurrences of the tremendous record sums paid for artworks on the market.

Simultaneously it presents notorious artists and remarkable artworks that deal in the same context but were not broadcasted as widespread as those excessive pieces of modern art which go under the hammer of the most exclusive auction houses.

In four thematic chapters numerous paintings, sculptures, object and performative acts from the field of urban, digital and especially avant-garde art were showcased und put up for critic discourse on monetary occurrences in the contemporary art scene.

This topic gets thematically round off by two essays by art historian Dr. Max Haiven and art critic Nicole Zepter along interviews with (money) art collector Dr. Stefan Haupt and renowned gallery director Bruno Brunnet (Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin) as well as an portrait on the concept artist Sebastian Siechold.