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The flea market multiples: 5. This will stick
by Benjamin Böhm, Germany

exhibit Nr.03

Description: Two matchboxes. Both contain Post-Its and a small pencil. the original is a Swedish matchbox.

Comments/Origin: Same content as 'A message for you' but a total different point of view. The booklet in the re-make show the number of copies of each multiple (without the copies in the Museum!) and, of course the origin:

In the summer of 1998 (or �99?) while walking around a flea market in Tübingen, Germany, I found a box of matchboxes at a stand with toys. They were named and labelled, contained small objects, came in a certain edition and contained a humorous and almost metaphysical idea. The perfect multiples in a Fluxus spirit were offered between old toys and other jumble.
I started to ask the man behind the stand about these multiples, but he was just standing in for his children, who had made the boxes. He seemed almost embarrassed when I enquired about the price. I bought seven of the multiples for 1 D-Mark (about 50 Cent) each from him. I waited for a while, but the kids didn't show up. So I didn't have the chance to meet the original artists.
This re-make of the original multiples is dedicated to the anonymous artists who brought them to life.

 

entered the Museum of Temporary Art on: 05.05.2004
 
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