Machines for the sale of "art"

Artists in cellophane celebrate the anniversary Art * o * mat

It all started somewhere in 1997 when an artist named Clark Whittington (Clark Whittington) was going to show his art in a town with the “cigarette” name Winston-Salem (Winston-Salem) in North Carolina.





He decided to do this at a personal exhibition at a local cafe (Mary's Of Course Cafe). It was then that the forbidden “cigarette machine” rushed into his eyes. Whittington suddenly remembered his friend, who reacted violently to the rustling cellophane: if someone unpacked something edible nearby, the artist’s friend lost control of himself and in an instant tried to get the same thing.

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Comparing with this fact a broken machine, Clark turned to the owner of a cafe, Cynthia Giles, with a request to use the machine. She allowed, and the artist hung 12 paintings on the walls, and next he installed a machine gun that sold Black and white photos of Whittington for a dollar apiece.



To date, about 400 "artists in cellophane" from 10 countries participate in the Art-o-mat project. And if you want to be one of them, you have to accept strict guidelines, any deviation from which does not promise anything good.



1. The size of your sample should not exceed the standard dimensions of 54 x 82 x 21 mm, dictated, as you understand, by the specifics of the “cigarette machines” set up for the sale of cigarette packs.







2. If the artists do not like your sample, they will not return it to you, but they will not use it themselves. This can happen if you break the rules and use magnets, balloons or something that contains peanuts in your work.



3. If your prototype is accepted, then AIC will send a notification so that you can start small-scale production: a minimum circulation of 50 copies. You send the finished batch to “Artists in Cellophane”, they after a while (maybe even in a few months) will answer you in which city and car the works will be sold.





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