Fountain Full of Money in a Downtown Shopping Mall
Money Fountain
Copyright: Tea Mäkipää
Linz09’s “The Ill Rabbit” project is responsible for all sorts of madcap stuff going on in the Capital of Culture. And that definitely applies to Finnish artist Tea Makipäa’s “Money Fountain” that will be spewing forth thousands of coins in Linz’s Passage City Center beginning Friday, April 17.
Makipäa’s installation poses the question of whether money is a substitute for clean air and fresh water. That might sound abstruse, “but when Drinking Water© is available strictly in labeled bottles and the only Clean Air™ comes from an air conditioning system while the only things that are experiencing healthy growth are the giants of the financial sector, then the ‘Money Fountain’ will be a very fitting little monument to this development, an ironic but above all melancholy declaration of love for disappearing, irreplaceable nature,” Mäkipää explained. The artist is known for works that deal with humankind’s inability to develop an environmentally sustainable lifestyle.Money Fountain will be on display in Linz until May 9.
The Ill Rabbit // Crazy About Linz: Money Fountain
Opening: Friday, April 17, 2 PM
Location: Passage City Center Linz, Landstraße 17-25, 1st Floor
