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Art For Sale!

Intervention project with the "9th Baltic Triennial of International Art: Black Market", CAC/Lithuania and ICA/London. 9/24/05 - 10/8/05.

The "Art for Sale!" is an intervention project that works with the "The 9th Baltic Triennial of International Art - the Black Market" at the CAC in Vilnius, Lithuania and the ICA in London. Through genuine 'black market' back door operations, I sneaked into the CAC and took photographs of a number of two-dimensional works (most of them already using appropriated images.) I then displayed the reproductions in a new manner and offered them explicitly for sale at a low price in a commercial gallery nearby. Many of the images are repeated in a Warholean manner, yet they are all exactly the same. As a piece is sold, it's taken off the wall and a new reproduction copy fills in the space. Later on, the curators of the Triennial officially invited me to show these reproductions as part of their exhibition at their second site in the ICA in London.

The above images are the two sides of a poster that I designed and distributed. I put these images next to the official Triennial advertisements wherever I could find them.

Images of the Show:
Check here for pictures of the "Art for Sale!" show at ARTima Gallery!
Check here for pictures of the show at ICA/London!

Press Coverage:
Lietuvos Rytas coverage of my show.
Lietuvos Zinios review of the Triennial and my show.
Ranked No.2 on the "Be Sorry If You Missed This Art in 2005" list by the Pravda Magazine, Lithuania, 2006

Links to Relavant Websites:
Official Website of the "9th Baltic Triennial of International Art"
Website of the ICA/London

The following friends have been instrumental in this project. Please check out their own work:
Website of Actus Magnus
Website of Daiva Bareikaite

Acknowledgements
I wish to express my special appreciation to the artists whose works I have appropriated for the purpose of this show. I would like to thank the following people for their help in making this project possible: Daiva Bareikaite, Terri Cohn, Ingrida Drukteinyte, Betty Tsang, Europos Parkas, Almantas Zykus, Eimantas Ludavicius, ARTima Gallery, and of course all the people whose name I cannot reveal. Last but not least, this project is in great debt to Actus Magnus, whose special support and continuous encouragement has helped spurred this project along from the very beginning.