One Billion Dollars
How much space will one billion dollar take up? Have you ever imagined that? Ok, from this post you can get the answer. This amazing project is the most expensive piece of art ever made by Art Marcovici. One Billion Dollar is stacked on 12 standard pallets, alltogether 10 million 100 USD notes. One Billion Dollar is not so much about what you see but what you could do or not do with the money.
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January 19th, 2009 09:18
If you need any help taking that back to wherever you got it from, I’ll give you a ride.
January 19th, 2009 12:33
Where’s the art? This looks like a photo from the US Treasury office.
January 19th, 2009 12:34
This is completely uninspiring
January 19th, 2009 13:09
It’s too bad this piece doesn’t meet the artistic expectations of some. Pearls and swine don’t mix.
Reality check! The economic figures in the nightly business news seem all the more stunning when you have a visual reference point like this piece. All the more amazing is that $1,000,000, in $1 bills, weighs nearly 2,200 pounds. This figure depicts $100 notes. It is estimated that Bernie Madoff stole nearly 50 times the amount of money in this picture! Truly staggering.
This is elegant expression with timely significance.
January 19th, 2009 21:24
I agree with Jake. Art is not design. Art should entice the senses and this piece does that. It may not be a van Gogh but it sure emits expression.
January 20th, 2009 06:26
As an artist and designer it really annoys me that people manage to get publicity for something like this.
How exactly is stacking a pile of money, something that people who work in treasury/bank warehouses must do on a routine basis be considered art?
This is something anyone can do with no need for imagination or artistic thought or a design process.
This is a pile of money period. I’m not sure what Jake and Bird have been smoking, but maybe I need some before I can get into the existentialism of putting one stack of bills onto another stack of bills. Far out dude!
I don’t even wan’t to see what else this guy has done (although I probably will just to confirm what I’m already thinking about him)
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January 20th, 2009 16:03
Pure crap, this guy is defficient
January 20th, 2009 16:11
While this is interesting, I wouldn’t call it art. I used to see this everyday when I worked at an armor car company. We used to count the money for banks and look for counterfeit bills. A million dollars can fit in one medium size bag, so you can imagine how much would fit on an entire floor in an office building.
January 21st, 2009 02:54
Y PENSAR QUE LA MITAD DE UN PALET DE ESOS, PUEDE CAMBIAR LA VIDA DE TANTAS PERSONAS…
EN QUE NOS HEMOS CONVERTIDO..
January 23rd, 2009 06:57
well…at least you know now that you can’t run with one billion dollar in stashed your backpack if you rob a bank……other than that, no feeling towards this pile of money
January 25th, 2009 18:21
Anything is art if you say it is. And if one person believes it then it really is. “The best art is good business.” Andy Warhol
February 1st, 2009 19:12
I would definitely say it is art, the point is not that something like thi sallready exists somewhere, this is true for many pcs of art, the point is to take it into the context of art and make it an artpiece. The point that the artist makes is that if twe look at art we also loo at the value of art, and that is true for sure, why else would damien hiert have got so much attention for his latest work. Reducing a piece to vlue only as michael marcovici did, is quite smart and interesting.
March 4th, 2009 16:31
Hi, I can
April 20th, 2009 09:47
NO WONDER OUR ECONIMY IS SO OUT OF WACK, ALL THE MONEY IS GOING TO STUPID ART!!!!!!!!!!!
June 8th, 2009 16:03
they spelled does wrong in the beginning
September 2nd, 2009 20:07
Piece of Shit.