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Gianni Motti: Funds Show
Pascal Beausse
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| Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson / Centre d’art la Synagogue de Delme 30 May – 13 September 2009 (Delme) / 10 April – 7 June 2009 (Ferme du Buisson) This is an art about crisis. For this project in two sections, Gianni Motti took an approach of absolute transparency concerning the production of the art. He exchanged the budget of each exhibition into $1 bills and displayed the bills themselves. In fact, the favorable exchange rate allowed him to increase the budget; the $5,000 allocated to him by each art center became $6,400. | | |  | | Gianni Motti, Funds Show, 2009. Installation view at Centre d’art la Synagogue de Delm. | | | | | At Ferme du Buisson, he hung them with clips on strings, in garlands from the ceiling of the exhibition rooms, embodying the capitalist economy and the importance of the dollar for the worldwide economy. The $1 bill saw itself brought back with decorative value — a metaphor for the days after the party, after the orgy. | | |  | | Gianni Motti, Money Box, 2009. Installation view at Centre d’art Contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson. | | | | | At Delme, the artist had the $6,400 of bills thrown from the balcony overhanging the exhibition space below. In the reception of the art centre, a video shows the ‘making of’ the installation from the ground: the bills whirl slowly, during the long minutes, like a downpour of rain. Money as spectacle. This is an art that is pragmatic, radical and caustic, a response from the artist to current financial disintegration. “Potentially, I could also be a millionaire!”, he says with the composure that characterizes his artistic stance. | | |  | | Gianni Motti, Money Box, 2009. Installation view at Centre d’art Contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson. | | | | | The art of Gianni Motti questions the truth of systems. At the end of the exhibitions, the bills will return to the budgets of the art centers. The exhibitions will not have cost anything and will therefore allow for the financing of future projects, for other artists. The work disappears and recycles itself, while escaping the system of profit and worth. At the private view of the “Funds Show,” grabbing the microphone during the official speech, Gianni Motti declared with a tone that was evidently mischievous: “I thank those that organized the crisis. Without them, there would not have been an exhibition.”
(Translated from French by Gianfranco Rosolia) | | | | |  | | Gianni Motti, Money Box, 2009. Installation view at Centre d’art Contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson. | | | | |
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